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r/donthelpjustfilm

That's not what happened though.

> Lauder, who said he has rescue diver training, dove out the window. He swam, walked, waded and kicked through water for about 45 minutes to get to her house. He said a van and a couple cars floated past him as he steered clear of sparking electric poles.

> He put her on a table and bundled her in dry sheets from a high shelf. He worried about the sores around her body — open wounds that were dangerously susceptible to infection in the bacteria-ridden floodwater.

> They waited three hours for the water to subside, so he could push her through the streets in her wheelchair. When the water was a couple feet high, he called for his 20-year-old son to join them and help push grandma to safety.

With 3 hours of having nothing to do but wait for the water to subside then he took some pics to update his family.

Except he stopped while this very old woman was standing unassisted in water up to her chest (he's very concerned about her sores) to take a pic...

He might've had a good reason for that, or thought he did. Or maybe she wanted it for some reason?

I wouldn't have wanted to take a picture like that, but if it was the quickest way to get her out of the water then I would've. I wasn't there so can't say, only that it seems like the help he provided seems significant to me.

>He might've had a good reason for that

Except he said he was very concerned about her sores. I.e. get her out of the dirty water asap.

Right. I'm saying that IF she wanted a pic for some reason then snapping the pic and getting her out of the water would've almost certainly taken less time than trying to debate or negotiate with her.

She probably asked him if he was hungry and wouldn't take no for an answer.

Naw, as a Floridian fuck this piece of shit tryna get his 15 mins of fame

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"Before the storm hit, Lauder said his mother — who lost a leg and requires a wheelchair — “ kicked and screamed” and said she didn’t want to leave her home in Naples, Florida. “We didn’t evacuate because we couldn’t leave her behind,” he explained."