A woman was rescued last week after she spent two days floating across an Oklahoma lake on an air mattress.
KXII reports that the woman and her significant other were separated while attempting to use the air mattress as a raft to reach a boat across Lake Texoma, a large reservoir situated on the Red River between Oklahoma and Texas.
“The information that we have is that a man showed up at a house near Lake Texoma on Thursday, wet and freezing and reported his significant other missing,” a spokesperson for the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said. “He said she was using an air mattress to float out to a boat on the lake and got swept away the day before.”
On Thursday, train conductor Cristhian Sosa and engineer Justin Luster discovered the woman while on their routine route from Madill, OK to Irving, TX.
“Well naturally we kinda thought maybe she was delirious, we really didn’t know what really happened and it wasn’t until we got to the crossing where highway patrolman had come out to find out her story was accurate. She had been floating on that air mattress for a solid day or two,” Luster said.
Sosa added, “She was literally laying on the ground waving one arm, basically her left arm, the one that her arm wasn’t stuck with her jacket and she was asking for help, so we instantly knew she was hurt and she needed help.”
Highway patrol officers arrived on the scene 15 minutes after the train crew reported the stranded woman. Officials say she was in the early stages of hypothermia, and was taken by EMS to the hospital. She is expected to survive.
