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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Josh Marcus

RARE PHOTOS: Son films himself swimming to save elderly mother from hurricane ian floods - The Real Truth

Johnny Lauder / Weather Channel

As flooding from Hurricane Ian inundated Naples, Florida, with at least six feet of storm surge, a man was filmed using a wakeboard to paddle across the city and rescue his elderly, disabled mother from water that was nearly up to her face.

Johnny Lauder, a former police officer and trained rescue diver, and his mother hadn’t evacuated before the Category 5 tore across Florida.

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