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While floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey rose to the tops of cars in Texas A&M commit Montel Parker’s hometown of Dickinson, his calls to his mother’s cell phone went unanswered.

Parker said he had been at his friend’s house a few blocks away from his family’s apartment when the rain started.

It didn’t take long before Parker’s family was trapped in their apartment complex, where they were forced to stay for nearly a day.

“It’s crazy. It’s like a dream,” Parker’s mother, Latoya Parker, said.

With the television on the Floyd Mayweather-Connor McGregor fight on Saturday night, the rains from Harvey began to click on the windows of the apartment. It wasn’t long before the flash flood outside found its way into the Parker residence, Latoyoa Parker said.

“The water was rushing in,” she said. “It was devastating. From the doors, the windows — it was coming in everywhere.”

As the murky Dickinson Bayou water rose to what would be four to five feet in the apartment, the family escaped to the second level of the complex where they kicked in a door to find shelter from the rain, Latoya Parker said.