A young mum was not able to rescue anything as she and her toddler daughter fled their flooded home in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Chrystelle Taylor was woken up at 4.45am on Sunday as her basement flat was flooding.
The River Taff had burst its banks and the town of Taff's Well was being flooded.
Chrystelle and two-year-old daughter Taomi fled and have been staying with friends as they recover from the shock.
The 21-year-old is completely distraught at losing her home but says she has received support from friends and family and a Justgiving page set up to help people in the town affected by the flooding has already raised £1,000 of its £5,000 target.
Chrystelle said: "It was the scariest wake-up call I've ever received. I have lived there two and a half years and we have had slight flooding in the area but nothing like I witnessed today.
"Luckily I was able to escape through my mum's house. I live in a basement apartment which only has one way in and one one way out. If my mum wasn’t my neighbour I would’ve been trapped
"We had to leave the house with absolutely nothing. All we have is the clothes on our backs.
"But the support we have had has been amazing. I have spend the day on my neighbour's sofa distraught and in complete shock at what happened this morning and what is about to come."
They are just two of hundreds of people who have been rescued from their homes across south Wales on Sunday.
Around 100 people have been rescued from their flooded homes in the village of Nantgarw and rescues were also carried out in Crickhowell and Pontypridd.
Police declared a "major incident" because of the severe weather, with landslides occurring in the valleys.
The Met Office said that more than 160mm of rain fell in parts of south Wales over a 48-hour period.
The forecast is for the rain to clear on Sunday afternoon to leave sunshine and scattered showers.
It will remain windy overnight with heavy thundery showers in places and Monday will be a day of scattered showers interspersed with bright or sunny spells.
