{"id":20058,"date":"2024-10-10T13:46:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T17:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/?p=20058"},"modified":"2024-10-10T13:46:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T17:46:40","slug":"florida-resident-gets-emotional-over-neighbors-courageous-act-thank-you-for-saving-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2024\/10\/florida-resident-gets-emotional-over-neighbors-courageous-act-thank-you-for-saving-my-life.html","title":{"rendered":"Florida Resident Gets Emotional Over Neighbor&#8217;s Courageous Act: &#8216;Thank you for saving my life&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_20070\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20070\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/89\/2024\/10\/woman-crying-milton_credit-Fox-News.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20070\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/89\/2024\/10\/woman-crying-milton_credit-Fox-News-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fox News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, a Florida woman is overwhelmed with emotion while thanking a neighbor for saving her life.<\/p>\n<p>In a clip shared by Fox News, the woman recounts how, while trying to reach a neighbor&#8217;s house, floodwaters unexpectedly surged around her. As the water rushed toward her, a man named Roy quickly came to her rescue and pulled her to safety inside his house. &#8220;He had no idea who I was. His name was Roy. Thank you for saving my life, Roy. I almost died,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"FL resident gets emotional over neighbor&#039;s courageous act: &#039;Thank you for saving my life&#039;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b1X94LFBSmI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"link\">Hurricane Milton<\/span> made landfall October 9th as a &#8220;dangerous Category 3&#8221; storm near Siesta Key, on Florida&#8217;s central west coast, the National Hurricane Center said. Milton had sustained winds of 120 mph at landfall, but its strength diminished to Category 1 as it moved inland across the state. The storm dropped more than 18 inches of rain on St. Petersburg, representing a more than 1-in-1,000-year rainfall event for the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, a Florida woman is overwhelmed with emotion while thanking a neighbor for saving her life. In a clip shared by Fox News, the woman recounts how, while trying to reach a neighbor&#8217;s house, floodwaters unexpectedly surged around her. 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