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Hooten Town Resident's Home Washes Away

By KSPR News
By Joanna Small

It's been three days since the James River swallowed Hooten Town, a small community in Stone County.
We brought you the survivors' stories the day after the storm, and we returned Friday to check in with one in particular.
Kat Bowers' story is really unbelievable.
When we interviewed her Wednesday, she couldn't even get onto her property to survey the damage.
But by 8 Thursday night the waters had receded and revealed a very tragic scene.

"Well there's my swimming pool tank..."

The last thing Kat Bowers is probably interested in right now is taking a dip.
Her belongings already did, and the result is a total loss.

"I was pretty well hurt cause I thought God would save it,” Kat says with a sigh.

A depressing scene greeted Kat when she finally returned home two days after the James River poured onto her property.

“The front rescue guy screamed gun it, gun it...."

Kat, her three kids, and two dogs were boated out of harm's way.
But all of her stuff- pictures, vehicles, collectibles- well, they were left to drown.
Only two of her cats survived.
As for her home and shop, they were ripped to pieces and strewn several hundred feet from the cinder blocks they once sat on.
“Then we began to see, is this the living room? Is this the shed? What is this? Is this the kitchen?” Kat explains.
The whole town is damaged, but Kat says her property is completely destroyed.
“It was still there so at least they can pick and poke and dig. Mine's gone, and ZI can't pick and poke and dig nothin'."
Even if she could, she'd have to be willing to get her feet wet.
For now, Kat is staying with her brother in Hooten Town.
She does not think she will be able to rebuild.
She says she hasn't had the heart to bring her three children to the house yet.

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