[VIDEO]: 'Lord Help Me!' Dramatic Hurricane Rescue Saves Driver About To Drown

HOUSTON, TX — As the offices of local news station KHOU were evacuated due to the devastating flooding in Houston, which the National Weather Service is calling unprecedented, the sole broadcast on the news channel was that of reporter Brandi Smith who, along with her photographer Mario Sandoval, flagged down a rescue boat to get a driver trapped in the cab of an 18-wheeler on a flooded highway to safety.

As Smith looks down at the driver trapped in the cab, she notes that the incident response team on the Hardy Toll Road is not here, and she rushes to flag down a rescue boat that she sees approaching.

"Here we go, we have a boat coming, we have a boat coming, I'm gonna flag these guys down," Smith says.

Smith runs to the Harris County Sheriff's truck and informs them of the truck driver who is stuck.

As the rescue unfolded on live television, the KHOU stream got cut, leaving viewers wondering about the fate of the truck driver. The driver did indeed make it out safe, and Smith posted the video of the rescue to her Facebook page, showing the driver being rescued at around the 4:40 mark.

You can watch the full video below:

When the truck driver is pulled from the cab, Smith is heard letting out a huge sigh of relief.

"I feel like I can finally breathe," she says, her voice clearly emotional. "Kind of a sigh of relief that he is OK and his fate will not be the same as the man who lost his life here a year ago in almost the same situation, semi-driver going into high water not knowing just how deep it can get in this area."

Smith and the truck driver later hugged it out.

Smith gave the credit to her photographer, Sandoval, for spotting the rescue truck, and the Harris County Sheriff's Office crew that executed the rescue.

Image screenshot via Facebook