Rhian Davies and her family have been forced to move from their home of 18 months after they were flooded for the third time since moving in.
In the early hours of Saturday, February 15, Storm Dennis battered the family's home in Varteg Road, Ystalyfera , with wind and rain.
Just after midnight, Rhian and her husband, Jacob, were woken by a panicked phone call from a neighbour. Their two children, Oliver, 4 and Connor, 2, were asleep in the next room.
"The next-door neighbour rang and said the water was half way up the wheel of the car on the driveway, less than an hour later it started coming through the doors.
"The children were asleep upstairs and we couldn't open the front or back doors. I didn't know what to do I just sat there and cried as the water destroyed the bottom floor of the house," said Rhian, 26.
The family moved into the council-owned property in June, 2018, and the road has flooded on two other occasions since then.
"The first flood was in October, 2018, little did we know that was just the start of it. In October last year the water came right up to the door again, but this is the first time it's actually come into the house.
"For the last eighteen months I would worry every time it was forecast to rain, every time I would think 'are we going to get flooded again?'" she added.
Her fears came true.
The ground floor of the property was covered in over a foot of dirty water from an overflowing culvert further up the street, which Rhian said had been the source of each flood.
At around 3:30am the couple had to lift their "terrified" children out of a bedroom window to take them further up the road to safety at Rhian's mother's house.
The family have now been rehoused in Seven Sisters and said "things are getting better" now that they were on high ground without the risk of another flood.
A fundraising page has been set up to raise £1,000 and help the family get back on their feet.
"We've been back to the house a couple of times since, it's just devastating because we lost so much," said Rhian.
"We lost things like the sofa and white goods like the washing machine but other things as well, not expensive money-wise but personally, family photos and that sort of thing that we can never replace."
The Davieses are getting back on their feet now they have moved, but the legacy of the flood, as with so many others across Wales, will be with them for years to come.
The flood waters from Storm Dennis in Varteg Road had receded by the afternoon of Sunday, February 16, and Rhian praised the work of the fire service who "tried their best all night to pump it away."
