Gayla Waller was getting ready to flee her home when the mountainside gave way, pushing the house at least 100 yards and tearing it apart while she was still inside
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00:00When I saw the water up to the window running sideways to the house like a rushing river,
00:06I was like, this is not good. I got to get out of here. So I didn't have time to get my wallet. I
00:12was going to the front door, going to grab the bag, and then heard this tremendous noise and
00:19felt something and just jumped in the floor in a little ball. And then it was just noise and
00:26movement and noise. And I don't know how long it lasted. And I just kept thinking,
00:32this is not good. This is not good. This is not good. When it was over, I was laying on my side,
00:38tangled up in the table and chairs on that side of the house. It had slid down on top of me.
00:44And when I was hearing bang, bang, bang, the attic and the roof came down, the walls came down,
00:52and the table stopped it. So I was tangled up and I was stuck. I'm like panicking. I couldn't get
00:58out. But there was a piece of tree in arm's reach and I used it as a lever. And it took a while,
01:04but I got untangled from the brawn iron chair and crawled up before, found a wall and was going to
01:12go kick a back window out and notice where the whole wall was gone. So there was a log in there
01:17and I went out on the log and sat there until three of the neighbors found me sitting on the log.