lexofer said:
He's an old too but yeah I wouldn't be filming it either. I'd have both hands free to do what I needed to. Also shows the importance of planning what you will do in an emergency ahead of time. Trying to figure out what needs to be done in the moment when you're panicking wastes time and can result in bad decisions.
There is tremendous value at times to looking at situations like this and learning from what other people did right or wrong. Having spent even just a few minutes thinking about how you would react in an emergency situation and talking it out with your loved ones can be incredibly calming in that moment and helpful at giving you a clear idea of what you need to get done.
I regularly read a scubadiving forum dedicated to after action evaluation of fatal incidents and near misses and had that come back to help me when my wife's autoinflator on her BC got stuck on when she was about 60 feet underwater. Having read about a similar incident recently, I was able to get to her and slow her ascent long enough while I disconnected the air hose to the auto inflator to keep her from having a runaway ascent all the way to the surface that would have been very dangerous.
In this case, the desire to run around the house gathering stuff they thought they needed almost proved fatal for them. It highlighted the need to have a flashlight available for each person, a go bag ready at all times with your vital needs in it, and a plan for how to get out of the house. It is also important to understand what are not "vital needs" when you are in a life threatening emergency. A lot of what the woman wanted to go back and get were things she could easily replace.
Horrifying video all the way around and I am glad they survived, but definitely lessons that can be learned from it.
