"We ended up at the kindergarten because our house was carried away by a torrent of water," said Oksana, as her daughter turned her head away to sob.

DNR officer Brett Irvin and Lexington Co. Deputy Dan Rusinyak carry June Loch ... a friend who helped clean her house on Burwell Street after it was submerged in flood water.

Images and videos ... submerged in brown murky water. But one particularly unnerving clip shows the severity of the deluge, as a cow is seen being carried away by flood water in the Cevennes ...

"The water in the house was at waist level. At midnight everything had been dry - both inside and outside," said the 73-year-old, who walks slowly with the help of a stick. "We can hardly walk.