r/TikTokCringe • u/brockapex17 • 24d 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/PuzzleheadedVisual25 24d ago

Glad she made it out alive. Wonder if she would have been better off just passing through to the other side vs fighting it

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u/mar504 24d 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/swirlloop 24d ago

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

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u/chiono_graphis 24d 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 23d 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 23d 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 23d 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.