The first floor of Serena Chaput’s house in Guerneville, California, was filling up with floodwater when she awoke with labor pains at 2 am on January 1, 1997 — right in the middle of Northern California’s New Year’s Flood of 1997.
She and her husband Jason endured “a tortuous journey involving several boats, two ambulances, and a semi-high speed chase” to get to the hospital.
They made it, and their baby boy was born at 5:40 am. He was named Noah.
(And here are two more flood-babies named Noah, one born in 1934, the other in 2007.)
Sources:
- Kleinberg, Jody. “Newborn of Floods Aptly Named Noah.” Press Democrat 2 Jan. 1997.
- Kleinberg, Jody. “Baby’s Birth Still Memorable Part of New Year’s Flood.” Press Democrat 2 Jan. 1998.