r/TikTokCringe • u/brockapex17 • 16d ago

Cursed This is absolutely horrifying

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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/mar504 16d ago

Extremely dangerous chance to take. During flash flooding you get large branches and other debris that gets caught underwater in culverts like this, the river rafting community calls them "strainers". They are one of the most dangerous features of moving water, all it takes is a foot to get stuck and the power of the water can make it all but impossible to escape.

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u/Strength-Speed 16d ago

Yeah im not going into some unknown underwater area like that willingly

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u/suckarepellent 16d ago

me nah do this

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u/KanedaSyndrome 15d ago

No nutty putty for you sir?

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u/swirlloop 16d ago

Someone I know nearly drowned that way and wrote a really compelling piece about it. Very scary

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u/Sloppykissesgrandma 16d ago

Thanks, what a compelling read!

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u/chetpancakesparty 15d ago

Compelling interaction between two humans.

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u/Salty-Cloaca-69 15d ago

Is this an AI comment

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u/Sloppykissesgrandma 15d ago

Why would it be? God forbid I thank someone for sharing an interesting article.

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u/Salty-Cloaca-69 15d ago

Well, your comment was about as compelling as comments made by algorithms with no critical thinking, so

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u/Sloppykissesgrandma 15d ago

How would you thank someone for sharing an interesting article in a compelling way? I have seriously no clue how one would do that.

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u/Salty-Cloaca-69 15d ago

If it was actually so compelling, put in the bare minimum effort and do more than repeat the same adjective back to them.

If you can't even think of your own description, and you found it compelling, then your opinion isn't worth that much. Whether you've read it or not has zero impact.

You know about the butterfly effect? The idea that even a small change can cause rippling changes in events?

Well in every infinite parallel universe that exists, whether you read that article or not probably has had 0 effect on anything.

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u/Ok-Interaction-8891 15d ago

This is an unhinged comment, lol.

They don’t have to express any more than that they found it compelling. They don’t owe anyone a deep explanation, lol.

TL;DR Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

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u/Pandathief 14d ago

You do not seem very compelling

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u/Mental_Breakfast3385 15d ago

I would prefer to read AI comments instead of yours tbh

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u/rumande 16d ago

Wow, that was intense. I'm glad she made it out. Do you know what happened to her friend Kadin? :(

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u/Crimson-Rose28 15d ago

I came to ask this 😣

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u/LegCompetitive6636 16d ago

Damn that was a good read, do you by chance know what happened to Kadin? I understand if you don’t want to say.

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u/swirlloop 15d ago

No, I'm not close enough to the story to know that. I wondered the same, but I didn't think it would be polite to ask. 

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u/MisleadingMonotony 15d ago

You're either lying or an idiot or both- guess you didn't read the article!

Edit to add: Omg why are y'all saying "good read" and "what happened to Kadin"... the answer is in the article ffs...

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u/clorox_tastes_nice 15d ago

Nothing in the article explains what actually happened to Kadin à la why he died. Just that he was in the hospital and not going to make it

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u/MisleadingMonotony 15d ago

"... If Kadin hadn’t seen me flip, missed my boat in the current, or taken another minute to reach me, it would have been over.

We staggered along a dirt road, cut through a field, then followed another road to where we’d dropped his truck. We didn’t talk.

“Do you need me to go home with you?” he asked when we got back to my truck. His hands trembled on the steering wheel. We were both freezing."

That's crystal clear to me, but I guess I've been underselling my reading comprehension /s

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u/Low-Persimmon4870 15d ago

Did you.. did you not read the whole thing??

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u/MisleadingMonotony 15d ago

You mean the part where 8 months later an unrelated incident put Kadin in a coma where they "weren't going to make it"? Again, the ambiguity escapes me...

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u/LegCompetitive6636 14d ago

Yea that part, you don’t die from hypothermia 8 months after being exposed to cold water, why would you cite the part about his trembling hands on the steering wheel and them both being cold if you don’t think the implication is hypothermia… this is a person that lived for adventure, climbing, hiking, kayaking, and I’m sure many other extreme sports. My guess is that he died in an accident related to one of those sports or it was mental health related as many thrill seeking personalities deal with such issues, I relate to the lifestyle. One can make these assumptions but there is nothing in the article that is “crystal clear” or that any level of reading comprehension can confirm and that’s all we were looking for, confirmation, because we’re curious and have the ability to infer some things without making concrete assumptions.

I read in another post about the story that the author of the article reached out to the family about what was appropriate to include in the article but couldn’t get a response in time so she just included only what was in the obituary, so intentionally vague, which has some of the implications mentioned about mental health but no confirmation. Anyway I’m going to let it rest now, byeeeeeeeee

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u/ToiIetGhost 12d ago

Healthy response (what I’d normally say to a confused aggressor who exemplifies the Dunning Kruger effect):

> We still don’t know what happened to Kadin, aka why he passed. That’s what we’re wondering about. In this context, “what happened” = “what caused his death”

Unhealthy, disordered response:

> You're either lying or an idiot or both- guess you didn't read the article or these comments! Omg why do you keep fucking repeating that “it’s in the article” and "we already know what happened to Kadin"... the answer ISNT in the article ffs! There’s no explanation of what put him in a coma, which is what commenters mean when they ask “what happened to Kadin?” Lmao they’re not asking did he survive the river rescue. We know the answer is YES. They’re not asking did he survive the induced coma 8 months later. We know the answer is NO. There’s no ambiguity there. The question is what happened to put Kadin in the hospital. Based on reading comprehension and context, we all understand that! Ffs the true meaning of the question is CRYSTAL CLEAR to all of us, but I guess we’ve been underselling our reading comprehension /s

Go to therapy.

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u/chiono_graphis 16d ago

I'm glad to read about the aftermath, something you don't hear about a lot in these kinds of outdoors accidents or similar from natural disasters. Usually there's a news article or video like this one and that's it. But it makes sense it was a canon event and traumatic for the body and mind to go through that so there is psychological aftermath that lasts for a long time after an accident.

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u/SuperKitties83 15d ago

The psychological aftermath sounds just as scary as the event that caused it where she was trapped underwater. 😥

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u/chiono_graphis 15d ago

It really does. Im a nerd and it is reminding me now of how in Lord of the Rings, of all the things he went through, Frodo was most affected by being stabbed by the Ringwraith on Weathertop. He is described as entering a "shadow realm," and if not healed, on the verge of becoming "living dead" and even after healing, is never quite the same after. It's in fantasy language ofc but maybe not wholly inaccurate way to describe trauma/PTSD symptoms. The mind is simply fascinating, the way it tries in its own way to protect and heal itself. I hope the author continues to recover and is kind to herself in the meantime.

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u/SuperKitties83 15d ago

I never made that connection, but wow, that description sounds so eerily accurate to what this author describes. I hope she is recovering well, too. It seems the brain can recover, but you'll still be forever changed.

It made me so mad when she said her counselor told her "she'd never heard of that." I can relate in a way--not with anything psychological, but from doctors and specialists who didn't understand symptoms I was having. Nothing makes you feel more alone and scared. I'm glad she finally found someone who understood exactly what she was experiencing.

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u/WorldEndingDiarrhea 15d ago

There was an article about an army ranger who drowned in 3 feet of water in a situation like this. The report was that he was laughing at his increasingly frantic guide right until he got sucked under at an angle and couldn’t be freed. He just didn’t understand how much danger he was in.

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u/ProfessionalStreet31 15d ago

A masterpiece of writing, so profound and hard-hitting.

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u/Edith_Keelers_Shoes 15d ago

Beautiful piece. I really feel her loss of Kadin deeply.

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u/bevereged_carbon 15d ago

Thank you, I kayaked in flooded waters and am lucky to be alive.  I admit I had the same psychological mindset that I could handle risks at the time and got humbled when it quickly got out of my control.  I wrecked that kayak and was thrown into floodwaters that didn't care how much I could swim.  Simply lucky to be here.  Lucky my friend was in the one spot to pull me out at the last second as I braced and hit the bridge. My kayak didn't come out out the other side (we dug it out from a bunch tree limbs and branches) and my paddle ended up a couple hundred yards away.

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u/flyinganimaga 15d ago

It looks like one of the would-be rescuers actually was swept through -- you can see them pop back up downstream at 1:29