A Florida couple rescued after Niece found a satellite image of H-E-L-P on a lawn

Earnest Gee, his wife and a friend came out of the storm According to ABC News, at his mother's home in Youngstown, a rural town of about 7,000 residents located 20 miles northeast of Panama City.

Earnest Gee, trapped by fallen trees, used newspapers to spell a distress call.

The couple's niece, Amber Gee, who fled her Panama City home with her two children before the hurricane arrived, is worried about her aunt and uncle, as well as about Other family members who survived the storm in the area.

After seeing satellite images of the destruction of the storm shared on social networks, Amber decided to visit the interactive map of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. to see how his family's properties had changed.

"I was checking the damage to my family's homes in the area and came across my grandmother's house," Amber Gee told ABC News. "And they had the word H-E-L-P written in the yard."

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She informed the Bay County emergency services, who sent a crew to the scene to rescue the couple and their friend.

"This is an amazing story of how people work together, "the agency posted on his Facebook page.

Amber Gee, 24, noted that amidst so many losses due to the storm, she was relieved to see her family escape unscathed.

"The hurricane has turned everything upside down," she said. "Some have been luckier than others, I am just happy that everyone is safe and hope that soon we will all be able to overcome that and recover from this storm."