Blazingfishes
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This happened some years ago, i'm too lazy to remember, but probably when i was 11 or 12. Every year I go to Kentucky/ North Carolina because i have lots of family there. Every year we have the most white ass camping trip to the same Yogi bear camp grounds and reserve a couple cabins. Real "camping" lol, with ac and a microwave. It's still loads of fun, theres a creek where we have most of our fun, theres a ton of food, ping pong table. A lot to do if you're an outdoorsy person though.
Anyway the creek is fairly rocky, but that makes for a fun ride when you tube down it. Tubing is when you're in an inner tube and you ride the current down, trying your best to avoid rocks and other potential harmful objects. After the rides over you walk 2 miles back to camp in your soaking clothes and carrying your inner tube. Like i said, loads of fun. Moving on, one year we arrived there, and there was a giant rainstorm throughout the camping trip. It was a giant pain in the ***, we couldn't do anything. A couple of times there were pockets of sunshine, but you couldn't do much because it would just start pouring again (Mind you all the food and everything is set up outside, you can imagine the mayhem that would be caused if we set it up each time). We were fed up with the rain though, and decided the next time we stopped raining we would go down the river.
Jesus christ we were dumb as ***.
Prior to leaving I was playing ping pong with this red neck little kid, right before i left to go tubing he said " I wouldn't go tubing, it aint safe, waters atleast 2 feet higher". Hungry for fun I ignored his warning and off we were to the river.
When we arrive there we notice the height of the river, it has gone up so much so that most of the rocks were covered, and it looked like it would be a very fun speedy tubing trip down the river. The water was veeerry rapid.
SIDE NOTE: If you've never really been into a river or ocean or anything, you're definitely underestimating the power of water right now. For example there's a little pocket of the river where people usually swim because there are no rocks. There's a side of the camps and a side over the river. During this storm, you couldn't swim to the other side without being swept away into the river...where you would most likely be seriously injured or die due to the rocks. When people say, "Don't go too far out into the ocean because you'll get swept away", and you think like "omg there so paranoid, i'm a good swimmer." You have never truly experienced the power of water. You see something like a tsunami , or flood on the news somewhere far away and you think "Oh I'd probably survive in that situation because I know how to swim, all those casualties must've been people who don't know how to swim well. " AGAIN , YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU're Talking about. You won't truly understand until you've been in a situation where water has all the control over you.
Moving past my angry sidenote.
We got into the water. Immediately we noticed how fast it was going. It was soo much fun, all the usual mini rapid had become so fast....but slowly that sense of fun dissolved into fear. The water was going so fast, the mini rapid had become mini waterfalls, we were beginning to question how we would stop and get out of the river. We are pulled apart by the river, some of us being swept ahead while others are still behind. I get seperated from everybody. The point where we usually get off from, nobody can stop , and we just keep going down the river. This is the moment that i realized how much f**** danger i was in. I came to a mini waterfall, expecting to have a really fun speed boost, but i am punched out of the tube.
My shoes fall off, i'm underwater, i hit a rock, i don't know where my tube is. I resurface i'm going as fast as car ( not that fast but i was going fast) in the opposite direction, my back is facing where i'm going. Remember, I'm going incredibly fast, and i'm in a very rocky river with sharp sticks and etc, I have no shoes either to protect my feet from what it'll hit. I'm slammed into a rock and the breath is knocked out of me. have you ever been in a situation where you're expecting to get punched in the stomach, but you're eyes are closed. This was like that except 10 times worse. I realize the situation i'm in. you might think, "oh why didn't you just turn around". NOPE, the water is pulling me harder than i can do anything. I see the tube. The tube is my lifeline. The tube is the only thing that can prevent me from getting knocked out and drowning. I f*****go ham and get to that tube like my life depends on it. I don't remember how i managed to get on that tube but i got on it.
I see everyone ahead of me, somehow they managed to stay on their tubes, probably cuz their alot older than me. They're all holding on to this one rock or something i don't remember, but they're all connected and holding against the current. They see me and we all latch on. But the force from me grabbing onto them brought them all with me back into the current. So now...there's a turn left int the river, and i'm in front of 5 other people...The wall ahead of us is a giant dirt wall with a tree growing there. The roots all stick out of the dirt ,....right towards where we're heading. Usually the water would pull you left as well...but imagine this. When i grabbed onto them, we went down a mini rapid, so we're going freaking fast, and they're all behind me..adding to that momentum. I don't really know how to explain it scientifically, but you get what i mean.
in front of us are the roots of the tree and we're heading straight towards it with me in front. At the last moment before we crash into the wall, i find a part where no root stick out , and kick the wall as hard as possible...WE stop thankfully. But the collision overturn some tubes, mine being one of them. So we're underewater going down the river again, thank goodness there was a patch where there were no rocks. But we're still underwater, someone scrambles towards the shore and kicks me in the head (lol they apoligized after) and make it to safety. We all manage to come into shore, half the tubes were popped in the collision as well. Shaken up we all begin walking the 4 miles ( we went way farther) back to camp. Wet and soaking, on a rocky country road, Mind you i have no shoes and one of my feet is bleeding from kicking the wall.
But yea, I will NEVER underestimate the power of water.
Anyway the creek is fairly rocky, but that makes for a fun ride when you tube down it. Tubing is when you're in an inner tube and you ride the current down, trying your best to avoid rocks and other potential harmful objects. After the rides over you walk 2 miles back to camp in your soaking clothes and carrying your inner tube. Like i said, loads of fun. Moving on, one year we arrived there, and there was a giant rainstorm throughout the camping trip. It was a giant pain in the ***, we couldn't do anything. A couple of times there were pockets of sunshine, but you couldn't do much because it would just start pouring again (Mind you all the food and everything is set up outside, you can imagine the mayhem that would be caused if we set it up each time). We were fed up with the rain though, and decided the next time we stopped raining we would go down the river.
Jesus christ we were dumb as ***.
Prior to leaving I was playing ping pong with this red neck little kid, right before i left to go tubing he said " I wouldn't go tubing, it aint safe, waters atleast 2 feet higher". Hungry for fun I ignored his warning and off we were to the river.
When we arrive there we notice the height of the river, it has gone up so much so that most of the rocks were covered, and it looked like it would be a very fun speedy tubing trip down the river. The water was veeerry rapid.
SIDE NOTE: If you've never really been into a river or ocean or anything, you're definitely underestimating the power of water right now. For example there's a little pocket of the river where people usually swim because there are no rocks. There's a side of the camps and a side over the river. During this storm, you couldn't swim to the other side without being swept away into the river...where you would most likely be seriously injured or die due to the rocks. When people say, "Don't go too far out into the ocean because you'll get swept away", and you think like "omg there so paranoid, i'm a good swimmer." You have never truly experienced the power of water. You see something like a tsunami , or flood on the news somewhere far away and you think "Oh I'd probably survive in that situation because I know how to swim, all those casualties must've been people who don't know how to swim well. " AGAIN , YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU're Talking about. You won't truly understand until you've been in a situation where water has all the control over you.
Moving past my angry sidenote.
We got into the water. Immediately we noticed how fast it was going. It was soo much fun, all the usual mini rapid had become so fast....but slowly that sense of fun dissolved into fear. The water was going so fast, the mini rapid had become mini waterfalls, we were beginning to question how we would stop and get out of the river. We are pulled apart by the river, some of us being swept ahead while others are still behind. I get seperated from everybody. The point where we usually get off from, nobody can stop , and we just keep going down the river. This is the moment that i realized how much f**** danger i was in. I came to a mini waterfall, expecting to have a really fun speed boost, but i am punched out of the tube.
My shoes fall off, i'm underwater, i hit a rock, i don't know where my tube is. I resurface i'm going as fast as car ( not that fast but i was going fast) in the opposite direction, my back is facing where i'm going. Remember, I'm going incredibly fast, and i'm in a very rocky river with sharp sticks and etc, I have no shoes either to protect my feet from what it'll hit. I'm slammed into a rock and the breath is knocked out of me. have you ever been in a situation where you're expecting to get punched in the stomach, but you're eyes are closed. This was like that except 10 times worse. I realize the situation i'm in. you might think, "oh why didn't you just turn around". NOPE, the water is pulling me harder than i can do anything. I see the tube. The tube is my lifeline. The tube is the only thing that can prevent me from getting knocked out and drowning. I f*****go ham and get to that tube like my life depends on it. I don't remember how i managed to get on that tube but i got on it.
I see everyone ahead of me, somehow they managed to stay on their tubes, probably cuz their alot older than me. They're all holding on to this one rock or something i don't remember, but they're all connected and holding against the current. They see me and we all latch on. But the force from me grabbing onto them brought them all with me back into the current. So now...there's a turn left int the river, and i'm in front of 5 other people...The wall ahead of us is a giant dirt wall with a tree growing there. The roots all stick out of the dirt ,....right towards where we're heading. Usually the water would pull you left as well...but imagine this. When i grabbed onto them, we went down a mini rapid, so we're going freaking fast, and they're all behind me..adding to that momentum. I don't really know how to explain it scientifically, but you get what i mean.
in front of us are the roots of the tree and we're heading straight towards it with me in front. At the last moment before we crash into the wall, i find a part where no root stick out , and kick the wall as hard as possible...WE stop thankfully. But the collision overturn some tubes, mine being one of them. So we're underewater going down the river again, thank goodness there was a patch where there were no rocks. But we're still underwater, someone scrambles towards the shore and kicks me in the head (lol they apoligized after) and make it to safety. We all manage to come into shore, half the tubes were popped in the collision as well. Shaken up we all begin walking the 4 miles ( we went way farther) back to camp. Wet and soaking, on a rocky country road, Mind you i have no shoes and one of my feet is bleeding from kicking the wall.
But yea, I will NEVER underestimate the power of water.
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