Dr. Annie Gray

This water was brown, and it was moving very fast.

I could see big vehicles floating by, and they were, most of them, completely destroyed.

We also saw some animals like dogs, and I could hear a pig and horse screaming.

Some houses were also getting taken by the water.

We could hear a lot of people screaming and the noise of the stones falling down.

It was destroying so many things.

We had to abandon our house and to run to the neighbour's house.

Lady can only see what's happening when flashes of lightning illuminate the sky.

I was really, really afraid.

And I tried not to show it to my little daughters, because I didn't want them to be more afraid.

I was so scared.

So much fear went through me.

It was such a disaster that my eyes couldn't believe what had happened.

The floods trigger landslides, with a wall of water, boulders and debris coming down the side of the mountain.

When dawn breaks the next day, ladies met with a terrifying sight.

We call it the big brown wave because of the way that the water was running from the mountain.

It was not straight.

It was going in little circles.

And that's why for us, it looked like a big snake was going down the mountain.

When I think about it, the fear comes back.