The water rising around their home was the most they had seen in their 30 years of residence.

They found Gretel standing on a car.

"She had crawled out of her kennel," Jan Watson said. "[She] bent it open enough to get out and she was standing on top of my '65 Mustang convertible."

This was not the first time Gretel escaped her kennel, but it worked out in her favor.

"She is sort of an escape artist anyway," Watson said.

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Savannah Chrisley, daughter of former reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, speaks outside the Federal Prison Camp on May 28, 2025, in Pensacola, Fla. President Donald Trump pardoned Todd and Julie Chrisley, who were found guilty of defrauding banks out of $36 million and hiding millions in earnings to avoid paying taxes. (Dan Anderson/AP)

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