911 dispatcher . Listen to the frantic 911 call '' `` Please , come help me , '' she says , her voice cracking . `` Please . '' The 911 dispatcher draws silent for a moment . `` Alright , ma'am . Just stay as calm as possible . '' During the next 12 minutes , the dispatcher would try to reassure Burciaga as she elicited clues as to the caller 's exact whereabouts . It was a neighborhood Burciaga knew well . She 'd lived there for the past decade . She was known as the neighborhood mom who would take anyone who needed help to the dentist or the doctor . Fluent in Spanish , she would often act as translator . `` She was a very loving mother , a good wife , a strong woman , '' said Pedro Burciaga , her husband of 14 years . `` She liked helping everyone , and overall she worked very hard . ... She always had a smile for everyone . '' As her life teetered in the balance , she described being near a yellow house and tried to give other details of where her vehicle
ATLANTA , Georgia -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Seydi Burciaga just finished her overnight shift at Sam 's Club , where she worked for the past 10 years . She made her way through the pouring rain in her minivan and turned onto her cul-de-sac in suburban Atlanta . Seydi and Pedro Burciaga were married for 14 years with two children . `` She was a very loving mother , '' he said . She was three-tenths of a mile from home . The mother of two young children never made it . Floodwaters from a swollen creek swept her Nissan Quest from Desiree Drive around 5 a.m. Monday . On a normal day , the creek is only a few feet wide . But days of nonstop rain turned the seemingly harmless waterway into a raging river . It sits at the bottom of a steep hill on a street with no lights . It would 've been nearly impossible to see the swift-moving water or how deep it was in the pre-dawn darkness . Her car was picked up and carried behind an elementary school and lodged in trees . Water was coming in fast , she told a