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That woman had zero survival instinct. She was sitting in her car as the water rose, like once you're waist deep in your car, maybe unbuckle and try to get on the roof or preemptively open a door before the pressure traps it shut. My God.
Lots of people panic when they are in a situation they never planned for before. We live such routine and safe lives most people have never been in a survival situation and they lock up or make bad decisions.
This was exactly my thought as I read and reread this paragraph several times trying to figure out if I was getting it wrong.
I agree but until you're in the same situation you have no idea what you'll do.
brain chemistry is weird and makes you do the dumbest things in dangerous situations.
monkey brain goes brrrrrrr.
Yeah, it's pretty hard to wrap your head around, especially hearing she was neck-deep by the time he got to her. I'm guessing she didn't feel physically capable of making it onto the roof and worried if she climbed out of the car's interior she'd get swept away faster.
Adrenaline with completely fuck up your higher brain functions, unless you've trained to cope with it. Its default effects are fight, flight, freeze or fawn. She went into freeze. She likely didn't want to make matters worse, and couldn't think it through, due to the adrenaline spike.
A rather dark survey I heard about years ago. Researchers couldn't find anyone who has self rescued from a submerged car, who hadn't planned for the eventuality. They had all worked out what to do if that happened to them. Many of the deaths had claw marks on the dashboard, and sometimes they hadn't even gotten their seat belts off. In the moment, their monkey brain couldn't even plan that far.