With the tide rising faster than a freight train toward their home on Dikeman Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn, Mark and Liz Ehrhardt staged a h
asty evacuation.

"We were just trying to get out of the way," said Liz Ehrhardt, who was pregnant with their second child.

The couple had been at the beach for about an hour when they noticed the water was rising.

"We were just trying to get out of the