Teens sucked into drainage culvert come out battered, but alive
Amazing that they survived this.
Published: August 31, 2012 Updated 21 hours ago
Two sucked into drainage culvert share their story
By KAREN NELSON — klnelson@sunherald.com
JACKSON COUNTY -- Parker Isaacson and Chesney Cummins had no idea that playing in the swift-running water that was draining off Wolf Ridge Road in their neighborhood Thursday could cost them their lives.
They saw it as the best place to ride their inner tubes.
The water was more than a foot or two deep at the intersection of Wolf Ridge and Timber Ridge Drive in the Three Rivers community. It was running high and strong and it was swirling swiftly in one spot. All the more fun.
But what was causing the swirl was a culvert they couldn't see beneath the water that had been installed by the county for drainage. And it was that culvert, a 30-inch pipe, that sucked both the teens underground, into a system of pipes, and almost drown them before spiting them out in a neighbor's yard more than two city blocks away.
They emerged battered.
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