Summary
As far as she knew, Roberta Ursrey and most of her family were about to die.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Kind World, I'm Erica Lance. |
| 0:07.0 | I like going to the beach. |
| 0:09.0 | We can find seen dollars, steep greys, jellyfish, and sea-gays, seashells and crabs. |
| 0:15.0 | On a warm summer day, 11-year-old Noah and 8-year-old Stephen played in the water while their mom watched. |
| 0:24.5 | It was just the sort of day Roberta Ersery dreamed of. |
| 0:28.2 | A few months before, Roberta had been a correctional officer in Georgia, but they came here whenever they could to the Florida |
| 0:34.7 | sand and son. |
| 0:36.6 | When Roberta's dad died, she thought, why not live in the place you love? |
| 0:40.9 | So she packed up her mom, her husband, her two girls and two boys, and they all moved to Panama City, Florida. |
| 0:47.0 | Our little piece of heaven down here. |
| 0:49.0 | One day in July, Roberta was scanning the horizon from her beach chair when she realized she couldn't see Stephen |
| 0:55.1 | and Noah. |
| 0:56.1 | Where's the boys? |
| 0:57.1 | So I went to looking up and down the beach and I seen them in the water. |
| 1:01.8 | They know not to go out that far. |
| 1:04.5 | All I heard was them screaming for help. We was trying to ride the waves to get to shore, but the riptide kept on pulling us back and it was strong. |
| 1:20.0 | The waves kept on going back and forth, back and forth. |
| 1:23.0 | I thought we wouldn't make it out. |
| 1:25.0 | Me and Noah is going to get drowned. |
| 1:28.0 | A woman was already with the boys, but when she and her wife tried to save them she got stuck |
| 1:33.7 | too. Roberto dropped her phone and ran into the water as some men on shore warned her |
| 1:38.9 | it was too dangerous. I said I don't care I said those are my kids I'm going out there and so I started swimming out |
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