Sunita Singh was found dead in her car, in Houston.
AB Wire
An Indian American woman who died going to work at her job as an electrical engineer at Bechtel Oil & Gas, in Houston, Texas, was a fanatic about her job, who used to start preparing over the weekend for work to resume on Monday.
Sunita Singh, 47, was one of six people who died in historic-level flash floods in the Houston area, on Monday. The floods submerged scores of subdivisions and several major interstate highways and forced closure of schools.
The bad weather, however, didn’t deter Singh from driving to work as usual on Monday. She was later found dead in her car, drowned in the flood waters, according to reports.
Singh is survived by her husband, Rajiv Singh, and a 15-year-old son.
In an interview to ABC 13 Eyewitness News, Rajiv Singh gave details of that fateful day which has shrouded his family in grief. He said the exit his wife normally takes was blocked off so she took a detour to a detour where the Westpark splits to 610 and Highway 59 split off.
“This morning she called me around 6:47. It was a brief phone call. She mentioned she was in a little trouble. She had water all around her,” Singh said. He didn’t know it was going to be his last conversation with her.
“She saw lights in her rearview. I thought OK, I was under the impression it’s bad weather, there are people rescuing her,” he said.
“Every Monday she looked forward to going to work. There was nothing I could do to take her out on Sunday because she had to prepare to go to work,” Singh said.
Gaurav Singh said: “I woke up thinking, ‘Yay no school today because of the flood.’ But it was the flood that took my mom away. I would’ve rather gone to school than have this happen.”
Rajiv Singh had two major points he wanted to get across.
“As a person who is driving, you want to be more careful,” he said. He also says he wants the folks who handle the roads need to do better.
“There are such intersections within the city’s major areas where there are death traps sitting over there. The city has not done anything about them,” he said.