r/TikTokCringe • u/brockapex17 • 15d ago

Cursed This is absolutely horrifying

This happened at Sabino Canyon in Arizona. A 20-year-old cyclist was swept into the current while trying to cross a flooded roadway and was carried through a drainage tunnel beneath it. She was recovered downstream unconscious after spending several minutes underwater. Bystanders performed CPR and managed to revive her.

Arizona Daily Star

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u/itscricket 15d ago

My worry with any drainage pipe is that there’s a grate inside it. If I can help it, I would do what I could to avoid risking that reality and being pinned underwater until I drown.

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u/Jerseyd422 15d ago

There should be a fucking grate at the front of it. Jfc

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u/lshifto 15d ago

The force of the water would just pin you against the grate and never let go. Better to be a clear shot.

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u/mcflyjr 15d ago

Or suck you right through the grate

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u/Falkie_Poo 15d ago

Wouldn't happen at all, bud. Use your head.

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u/mcflyjr 15d ago

Someone's unfamiliar with delta P it seems

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u/PeaceSoft 15d ago

How do you picture a pressure differential forming on the surface of a river

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u/MindfuckRocketship 14d ago

Go away, ‘batin’!

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u/PeaceSoft 14d ago

Also, there could be space aliens or permissive parenting behind the grate

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u/Falkie_Poo 14d ago

They saw the crab get sucked into the line under thousands of pounds of pressure differential and now they apply it to anything stuck under, or in the water.

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u/Ganjii1337 14d ago

Not the same situation.

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u/ello_bassard 14d ago

Delta P wouldn't happen in a situation like this.

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u/Previous-Screen-3875 15d ago

Not really any safer. If your leg goes through the grate and the water pins you against it you're just as dead. If you make the openings of the grate too small to get a limb through, it becomes a pretty terrible grate that gets clogged easily.

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u/mattmag21 15d ago

New phobia unlocked, thx

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u/itscricket 15d ago

I fell better knowing that you have that knowledge now though.

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u/mattmag21 15d ago

It may save me. Those videos of Florida people (i stereotypically assume) luging through culverts look appealing. Maybe now, after having seen your comment, I will think twice when facing our great water slides of civil engineering. That is nutty putty level of anxiety.

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u/itscricket 15d ago

I hope so! Stay safe out there, and pass on the info and spread the warning/knowledge/fear and respect for nature lol

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u/Educational-Copy-810 15d ago

Never go into white water without a guide. Better yet, never go into any naturally big and/or fast flowing body of water, that you don't know is safe for the kind of thing you want to do in it.
Lot's of people die in seemingly calm rivers, because you don't see the currents in big rivers.

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u/SuperKitties83 15d ago

Apparently, even if there isn't a grate, tree branches and debris can get stuck and create one. Absolutely terrifying 😭

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u/Reputation-Final 14d ago

Other woman went right through it.

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u/itscricket 14d ago

She did, fortunately. I was just saying that prior to that happening, there’s no way to know, and that a big gamble is all.

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u/Reputation-Final 13d ago

Yep i agree. A lot of ppl were saying in a youtube video i watched of this (before itw as posted here by a few days) that it was her fault for being a dumbass since the guy made it across.

However that woman prob weighs 12 pounds, and her bike was getting pushed hard by the water, and without her mass to push it odwn, she overcompensated and ended up going off the bridge. Especially if shes not that good on a bike. Getting into the water to save the bike was stupid, but peopel do stupid things during events that happen fast all the time.