On this edition of Narrative, we mark the 10th anniversary of the historic “thousand-year” flood of October 2015, when relentless rainfall devastated communities across South Carolina.

A year after the flood, Columbia resident Beki Gettys and her eleven-year-old son Eli sat down to talk about the morning they awoke to flood waters overtaking their neighborhood.

They spoke with StoryCorps, a national initiative to record and collect stories of everyday people. This conversation was originally produced for Narrative by Laura Hunsberger.

You can find full transcripts here.