Sam woke up the next day, his heart loaded with happiness. He brushed his teeth, ate breakfast, and got dressed, after he put his clothes Sam went and got into the car and buckled his seat belt. Patiently waiting for his mom he began to sing.

His mom finally came outside and got into the car, she looked back at Sam in the backseat with a bright smile and asked "Are you all ready to go?". With an optimistic voice He replied "Ready like Freddy!, his mom began to laugh.

They began to drive off, toward the highway. As they were driving on the spillway  Sam looked out of the car window, noticing all the water around them. He had remembered seeing what the spillway looked like on the news.

But now he was actually on it, which terrified him a little because Sam always had a fear of drowning. After an hour of driving they had finally made it, he stepped out of the car and instantly got a flashback of what happened there.

The smell of mildew and dead bodies sat heavily within the atmosphere. It was so unbearable that Sam had to cover his nose with his shirt, as walked up the steps to the door his hands started to shake. When they walked into the house, some of the belongings they left behind were destroyed.

The entire ceiling had collapsed, from the front of the house all the way to the very back. Sam began to imagine himself laying in bed and being buried under all that rubbish, him and his mom began to go through all of their things to see what was worth salvaging.

All of Sam's toys were ruined, his bed was covered in mildew, he couldn't walk through his room without stepping on ceiling tiles. It all started flooding back into his memory, Sam felt as if he was living it all over again. It became overwhelming, so he had to step outside for fresh air...what was left of it anyway.

Sam stood on the sidewalk in front of their house, trying really hard to keep his composure. The neighborhood was completely empty, there were no people just total silence. It was safe to say that the city had become a ghost town, except there were no tumble weeds rolling around like in the movies.