TILLAMOOK (AP) — A two-day storm flooded a coastal creek south of Tillamook, stranding several people in cars, including a woman and two children who were rescued from atop their submerged SUV.

Seven people were rescued from their vehicles Wednesday night. None had serious injuries.

Fire Capt. Charles Spittles in Tillamook County said the storm turned Fawcett Creek into a river that appeared to be 100-150 feet wide in the darkness Wednesday. “I couldn’t see the other side,” he said.

The flood washed out a culvert and a stretch of two-lane county road above it. Two vehicles whose drivers were unaware of the damage got caught.

Rescuers waded through the water to fetch four people from inside one vehicle.

Spittles said Stephanie McRae and her children were in greater jeopardy as their Ford Expedition was swept a quarter-mile downstream and lodged against a tree.

Her 11-year-old daughter managed to crawl through the broken front window and shimmy across a branch of the tree to get to safety, he said.

The daughter went to a nearby house to alert authorities that her mother and two young children were atop the vehicle.

“By this time, the river was pounding on the roof and going over the roof,” Spittles said.

After rescuers threw an extension ladder over a limb and dangled ropes to her, he said, McRae lashed the two children, and rescuers pulled them up to safety. He estimated the children were 3 or younger.

McRae herself “was getting cold, weak,” he said, so rescuers tipped the ladder down to her so that she could pull herself over the end and crawl along it to get to her rescuers.

Tillamook County Sheriff Todd Anderson said McRae and the two children were treated at a hospital and released.

Rainfall reports from the storm ranged from 5 to 7 inches generally, with one report of more than 10 inches south of Tillamook. Oregon 6 was blocked by a mudslide. Highway workers said they hoped to reopen it at mid-afternoon Thursday. High water impeded traffic along U.S. 101 at two spots.