HALLSVILLE---A woman was driving on rain-soaked Highway 80, when a giant tree fell on top of her car trapping her inside Wednesday morning.

Luckily, Franklin Figueredo saw it, and he called for help.

"I called my next to oldest boy who's a volunteer fireman and had him dispatch people out here," Figueredo explains.

The tree was standing in a ravine that turns into a rushing river when it rains, and Figueredo says, that's the perfect condition for a tree to fall flat.

"That rising water, swift water, will bring any tree down...Of course, there's always a tree down here somewhere," Figueredo says.

It blocked busy highway eighty for nearly two hours.

Many were left waiting on the two-lane road until everything was cleared away.

Other roads were also closed, possibly saving some more headaches.

"The roads were horrible," Cynthia King says.

Creeks were nearly going over their banks, water couldn't flow quickly enough into the storm sewers, and open low-lying areas looked like lakes created in just a matter of hours.

Officials say the woman who was driving the car smashed by the tree injured her leg and was taken to a Longview hospital by ambulance.