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A 1-year-old child in North Carolina was swept away by floods caused by Florence after her mother lost control of the child.
Search and Rescue Teams spent hours searching for Kaiden Lee-Welch during the night from Sunday to Monday after the water of the deadly storm flooded the highway his mother was driving to Wadesboro, North Carolina .
"I held his hand, trying to hold him back, trying to pull him up … I could not hold on, and he let go," said Lee's mother at FOX 46 WJZY.
Kaiden's search resumed on Monday morning, the Union County Sheriff's Office announced in a Facebook post.
Kaiden's mother, identified as Dazia Lee by FOX 46 WJZY, told the authorities that she had bypassed a barricade on North Carolina Highway 218 towards Wadesboro, when she encountered the whitewater Richardson Creek.
The water pushed her car off the road and left her stuck in a group of trees, police said.
Lee managed to get Kaiden out of the car, but the water made him lose his grip.
Lee sobbed while describing his son in the local newspaper.
"My son is 1. He is the kindest boy you can have," she says.
The reason Lee was traveling on the highway was not obvious.
"I did everything I could from the moment I was pregnant to the moment I lost it. As a parent, I did everything I could. to save it and protect it, "she said.
Family members joined the police to look for the boy during the night. Police have urged residents to avoid Highway 218 due to ongoing floods.
The governor of North Carolina, Roy Cooper, said on Sunday that flood waters raged across the state and created a huge risk for the state's inhabitants.
According to the National Hurricane Center, Florence was downgraded to a tropical depression and crossed the region, according to the National Hurricane Center.
The storm is responsible for at least 17 deaths, the majority being casualties in North Carolina. Two babies and one mother were killed in separate incidents in Gaston County and Wilmington
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