Woman saves her dog and two frozen pizzas from South Carolina flooding

A South Carolina woman grabbed her most prized possessions before scrambling to safety during severe flooding – her dog and frozen pizzas.

Hurricane Joaquin brought record-breaking rainfall to South Carolina over the weekend, with more than 20 inches of rain hitting some areas, the New York Daily News reports.

The state’s capital, Columbia, saw the worst flooding in South Carolina’s history with a new 24-hour record rainfall, The Weather Channel reports.

During the chaos, one South Carolina TV station found a woman in Colombia who gave a “lighthearted moment” during the storm, which the news station had posted their Facebook page.

WIS-TV’s reporter Mary King spoke to a woman known only as Angela, who was forced to evacuate her apartment to avoid “rapidly-rising flood waters,” WNCN reports.

She told the news station that she thought she had 30-minutes to an hour to evacuate her home, but water started rushing into her apartment 10 minutes later.

When she opened the front door the water “gushed in like the ocean was coming in the house,” the woman told WIS-TV.

She decided to quickly grab what she could from her home and escape to safety.

“I didn’t grab nothing but two Totino’s pizzas out of the refrigerator and my doggy, and we left. That’s it. I tried to grab some other things, but they wasn’t even worth it,” the woman told the reporter.

The woman also told King that two of her neighbours didn’t escape their flooding apartment fast enough and were forced to “stand on a Cadillac” while a motorboat came to rescue them.

The Weather Channel reports that six people were killed during the historic flooding brought by Hurricane Joaquin.