My neighbor, the hero!
Yesterday, friends borrowed the canoe and took their young children out for a paddle, only no one was watching the horizon and the same storm that had passed through downtown earlier finally made its way to the bayou and as they were out in the middle of the water, the sky grew ominously black, the lightning and thunder kicked in and the wind started howling. A little daunted, they tried to paddle back to our shore but were facing a bit of a headwind.
My neighbor spotted the situation and ran from her house and got them safely to shore on the other side and brought them back in time to save them from the storm.