VIDEO: Severe weather hit Lansing, Iowa, Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, resulting in washed-out streets, mudslides and an early-morning rescue one couple won't soon forget. What started with a relaxing camping trip to celebrate their anniversary, quickly changed Tuesday night when heavy rain turned a nearby creek into a powerful force that took Veronica and Carl Niekamp's cabin along with it. "We couldn't see anything out, everything was pitch black. We were afraid to open the door,” Veronica said. “We were so alone in there, because there's no way to get ahold of anybody." Veronica had one contact in her phone -- her daughter in Florida, who called for help. "The current was so rapid that we couldn't get there (at first),” Lansing fire Chief Tony Becker said. Around 2 a.m. Wednesday, firefighters arrived, and with the help of a motorless boat and plenty of rope, they saved the couple by 5 that morning. “We were able to get this boat over to them and get them to dry land, or drier land, anyway,” Becker said. "Something like this happens makes you realize how powerful Mother Nature is,” campground owner Nate Kondora said. “I’m thankful everyone's okay." Kondora said the cabin is destroyed, and he and his wife still have plenty of cleanup work to do at the campground. Veronica has one way to describe her experience with Mother Nature. "You know when Dorothy's up there, and house is shaking like this, and she's in the 'Wizard of Oz?'” she said. “That's kind of the thought that went through my head afterward."