A riptide swept away a Florida family. Then beachgoers formed a human chain.
Source: WA Post
When Jessica and Derek Simmons first saw the beachgoers pausing to stare toward the water, the young couple just assumed someone had spotted a shark.
It was Saturday evening, after all, peak summer season in Panama City Beach for overheated Florida tourists to cross paths with curious marine life. Then they noticed flashing lights by the boardwalk, a police truck on the sand and nearly a dozen bobbing heads about 100 yards beyond the beach, crying desperately for help.
Six members of a single family four adults and two young boys and four other swimmers had been swept away by a powerful and deceptive riptide churning below the waters surface.
These people are not drowning today, Jessica Simmons thought, she told the Panama City News Herald. Its not happening. Were going to get them out.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/07/11/a-riptide-swept-away-a-florida-family-then-beachgoers-formed-a-human-chain/?tid=sm_fb&utm_term=.8233438cae2e
Sometimes we need news like this.
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)Dern onions!
pnwmom
(108,978 posts)brer cat
(24,568 posts)Thank you for posting such an uplifting story about good people doing the right thing. We read enough depressing news; we need a day-brightener.
sdfernando
(4,935 posts)Kudos to everyone who got involved!
question everything
(47,484 posts)(and am glad to find it on LBN..
niyad
(113,323 posts)thank you so much for this beautiful story. restores my faith in some human beings, anyway.
Stuart G
(38,428 posts)nolabear
(41,984 posts)Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)What a tremendous outpouring of human kindness.