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July 11, 2023 | 7:10pm
The dad of the lady killed in upstate’s “freak” flood explained to The Post on Tuesday how he saw his child pass away attempting to save her dog — including the animal endured however is now deeply shocked.
Edward Nugent said that when a piece of the family’s lawn collapsed into a tributary creek running behind your house in Fort Montgomery throughout the lethal rains Sunday night, his 43-year-old child Pamela Nugent worried and attempted to leave the home.
He said his child — a New York University graduate who worked for an engineering company in New York City — “remained in your house, she saw the lawn collapse.
“She got really scared” said the papa, who was throughout the street at the time attempting to help her having a hard time future husband with their vehicles near the Hudson River.
“She attempted to come out with the dog, and we shouted at her, ‘Stay in the house! Stay in the house!’ and she began shrieking ‘The house is gonna fall down!’
“So she was in here for a bit, hooked the dog up on a leash, tried put her head down, wouldn’t listen to us, tried to cross the street, soon as she hit the road she was gone,” the stricken dad said.
He said Pamela and the dog, a Newfoundland called Minnie, vanished into the gush that was crashing down and removing the roadway.
“She tried to grab the car. [The water] took her past the car, and just past this bush here on the right, and then the road dropped out, and she went down in there with the dog,” Nugent said.
After the floodwaters declined, Pamela’s body was found at the bottom of a gorge near the home — with her precious dog alive near her.
Nugent said he selected not to see his child’s remains.
“The Fire Department and somebody else, they found her.” he said. “The county medical inspector was up there, he informed me ‘You don’t wish to see her. You have your last memories of her, keep those.’ “
Minnie was amazingly found safe near Pamela’s body.
“The dog took the ride all the way down to the river. They found the dog with her,” Nugent said, including that he invested “nine hours trying to get the mud caked into [the pooch] out” when she was brought home.
But although physically safe, the dog stays obviously shaken by the frightening experience.
“I moved all her joints, legs, and I don’t think she has any mobile issues,” Nugent said. “I think she’s just traumatized, you know, getting swept down the white water.”
Images from the area revealed the Nugents’ lawn almost totally deteriorated away into the creek bed listed below and the roadway leading down to the river gutted into a deep rough trench of asphalt particles, dirt, and stones.
“It wasn’t so much the rain right here, it was up in the mountains, everything just drained down here,” Nugent explained. “It was hard to process it was happening so quick, nobody had a clue what was happening.”
Since his child’s death, Nugent said he’s been attempting to keep a strong face for loved ones.
“But when I’m by myself, I wail,” he said. “She was a really bright young woman. Professional. She was one of the kindest people you ever meet.”
Pam Nugent worked for an engineering company in New York City after finishing from NYU, according to NBC.
Swaths of the Hudson Valley, up through Massachusetts and into Vermont are still reeling from the weekend’s rain storms, which dropped approximately 9 inches in some locations and continued into the week.
Vermont was so greatly struck Monday night that New York Emergency Management collaborated with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to release 46 members of the New York Police Department and Fire Department to help in continuous clean-up and healing operations.
“We stand with Vermont during this challenging time, offering our unwavering support and expertise in the face of severe floods,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said in a declaration Tuesday.
“This deployment reflects New York City’s commitment to supporting our neighbors in times of crisis, and I am confident our team will bring a wealth of experience in disaster recovery and emergency response to the Green Mountain State as they cope with this disaster.”
More rain is anticipated to fall on Vermont come Thursday.
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