The father and a neighbor were able to rescue their children - an infant, a 3-year-old and a 4-year-old - by putting the kids in a tree, but when the husband turned around to get his wife, she would been swept away in the water.The image of the flood and the scope of the family tragedy remained indelible to Lamb and, in his fictionalized We Are Water, one of the children who survived the flood gro