South Carolina Woman Clings to Large Cross for Hours Awaiting Rescue in Flood

A woman said she clung to a cross for five hours after getting trapped in floodwaters in South Carolina on Sunday.

Clara Gantt said she was heading to her church when she mistakenly drove into a sheet of water covering a road, she told NBC station WIS in Columbia.

Her car was swept from the road into a field near the church. She tried to call 911, but got no answer. Gantt was able to reach her family, she told WIS.

"I knew there was water out there, but I didn't know that it was going to stall me and it did," Gantt told the station.

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