GARVIN COUNTY, Okla. (KFOR) – A lady is recovering after a miraculous rescue following the torrential flooding in Garvin County Wednesday morning.
“I simply prayed to God and requested Him to please simply get me out of this,” mentioned Rebecca Collins. “And He did.”
She was driving to work at about 5 a.m. within the torrential downpour that was flooding the realm.
Collins didn’t see that the bridge she used on a regular basis had utterly washed away.
“The highway was there after which it wasn’t there,” Collins mentioned. “I went straight down about 15 ft.”
Staring straight down and bracing for influence, someway she survived the sudden crash. Then the water started flooding the automotive.
“I used to be actual scared,” Collins mentioned, nonetheless shaking from the ordeal, wiping away tears.
Panicked, Collins kicked out the window and climbed free. The drive of the water instantly pushed her down the stream, so she clung to a close-by rock within the pitch blackness.
She referred to as for assist one of the best ways she knew how.
“I can’t sing or dance or something, however I can whistle,” she mentioned, “and I whistled as loud as I might.”
Exhausted, alone and determined, it was half-hour earlier than Collins noticed one other signal of life.
“I knew I used to be out in the course of nowhere and no person was going to listen to me,” Collins mentioned, “however then once I noticed the automotive lights, I used to be already actually drained, so I simply saved whistling and he heard me.”
Line employee Brandon McCaskill with Rural Electrical Cooperative Lindsay was out fixing outages and occurred upon the fallen bridge, braking in time earlier than it took his truck, too.
“If I wouldn’t have rolled the window down to show round, I’d by no means have identified she was in there,” McCaskill mentioned.
“I simply went into ‘I-need-to-do-something’ mode,” McCaskill mentioned. “Myself, I used to be type of panicking, too.”
However he had the wherewithal to name for assist over his radio earlier than tossing her a line.
“She caught it someway fortunately,” he mentioned.
However he heard the whistle, seemed over the sting and noticed the automotive and the lady combating to remain above the floodwaters.
Collins wrapped the wire round her waist however her legs have been too fatigued to work.
“He pulled all my weight up and rescued me out of the opening,” Collins mentioned.
As of Wednesday night time, the automotive was nonetheless crashed on the wreckage of the bridge because the waters receded.
Her pockets, her telephone and the automobile she had solely two days have been all gone.
However she escaped along with her life because of Brandon’s fast, tireless motion.
“I simply need to say thanks to Brandon. He saved my life.”
It was the miracle she prayed for.
“I do know God despatched Brandon,” Collins mentioned. “He did.”
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