Six consecutive days of spring rain had created a raging river running by Nancy Brown's farm. As she tried to herd her cows to higher ground, she slipped and hit her head on a fallen tree trunk. The fall knocked her out for a moment or two. When she came to, Lizzie, one of her oldest and favorite cows, was licking her face. The water was rising. Nancy got up and began walking slowly with Lizzie. The water was now waist high. Nancy's pace got slower and slower. Finally, all she could do was to throw her arm around Lizzie's neck and try to hang on. About 20 minutes later, Lizzie managed to successfully pull herself and Nancy out of the raging water and onto a bit of high land, a small island now in the middle of acres of white water.
连续六天的春雨造成了汹涌的河流运行通过南茜棕色的农场。当她试图赶畜群到更高的地方，她把她的头撞在一棵倒下的树的树干。秋天把她撞倒了一个或两个时刻。当她来到，莉齐，她的一个最古老和最喜欢的牛，正在舔她的脸。水上升。南茜站了起来，开始慢慢地与莉齐。水是现在腰高。南茜的步伐越来越慢。最后，她所能做的就是把她搂着莉齐的脖子，再坚持。大约20分钟后，莉齐成功地把自己和南茜拉出湍急的河水，到一个点高的土地，一个小岛屿现在在白水亩中间。
Even though it was about noon, the sky was so dark and the rain and lightning so bad that it took rescuers another two hours to discover Nancy. A helicopter lowered a paramedic(伞降医务人员), who attached Nancy to a life-support hoist(吊起，提起) They raised her into the helicopter and took her to the school gym, where the Red Cross had set up an emergency shelter.
虽然大约是中午时分，天空是如此的黑暗和雨和闪电如此恶劣，救援人员花了两个小时才发现南茜。一架直升机放下了一个辅助(伞降医务人员)，谁重视南茜在生命支持提升(吊起，提起)他们将她抬到直升机送她到学校体育馆，红十字会已在那里建立一个紧急避难所。