Lubia Estevez and Forest Whitlock, both women in their 60s, died Monday night when they were traveling during an intense storm and their car ended up in a ditch before being washed away. Their families are now sharing the kind of people they were.

The two women were in their car on the road when it was swept into the Cedar Brook during the height of the storm.

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The unnamed pair were swept off the road and trapped in their car as waters surged in the Cedar Brook, in Plainfield, on Monday night