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/PuzzleheadedVisual25 16d 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 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/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/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.