Maritza Castillo and her husband were on their way to help a family member — but they ended up saving the life of a stranger. The couple was on Interstate-10 in Houston on Tuesday, en route to pick up Castillo’s brother who’d been flooded in. But the pair couldn’t reach him because the roads were submerged. “We got turned around,” Castillo told CNN by phone. As they waited in stalled traffic, they watched a horrifying scene unfold in front of them. Floodwaters had picked up an elderly man’s SUV and were sweeping it away. “My heart started beating fast,” Castillo said. Without pause, the couple and dozens of other drivers jumped into the water to help. “Somebody said, ‘Let’s form a chain.'” So, they did. READ MORE

These people formed a human chain to help save a man from a car that was being swept away by floodwaters https://t.co/S44wSTexA6 pic.twitter.com/uS5sOqAmp1

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