Lilly Elliott, 8, stands next to her play house which was washed around the family's residence at 330 Denny Road, Middlesex Township, during the storm last night. Lilly, her two siblings and her aunt were rescued by kayak Wednesday night from the home of her grandmother, Karla Horanic.

This an excerpt from one of many articles about the effects of Wednesday's rainfall that appear in Thursday's Butler Eagle. Pick up Thursday's issue to read all of those stories.MIDDLESEX TWP — Karla Horanic was asleep when her neighbor knocked on her front door to warn her that floodwaters were overtaking her home at 300 Denny Road.The water was already chest high, she said, by the time she stepped off her front porch around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday night. The frantic efforts began to save the cars and rescue her family, including three grandchildren, by kayak through the drenching downpour.“It was already too late,” she said.Horanic, whose car was at the end of the driveway, said the water covered her feet as she drove it up onto the road. Somehow, she also found time to call 911.“I was sitting in water as I was driving,” Horanic said.

This is an excerpt — pick up Thursday's Butler Eagle to read more about the Horanics' harrowing experience during the storm.