Nothing Good Happens Under Raging Waters

[lethalweapon3]

 

... except this ...

http://www.sltrib.com/sports/jazz/2017/10/06/life-saver-jazz-forward-thabo-sefolosha-rescued-a-woman-in-the-provo-river-in-the-offseason/

 

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...what the Jazz forward may view as a small encounter last month on the Provo River was a life-saving moment — and Lori Clark wants him, and fans of the Jazz, to know how much it meant to her.

“He didn’t realize I was really in dire straits,” she said in an interview with the Tribune. “He really did save my life that day.”

The 33-year-old Sefolosha has made it a point to go outdoors with his wife, Bertille, and two daughters, Lesedi and Naledi, to adapt to their new home. The day after they flew in from Europe, they decided to go rafting on a warm Sunday...

 

 

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Clark had decided to float on the river with several of her friends and her children, on what she called a “bucket list” adventure. But the river was faster and harder to handle than anticipated — many weekend tubers can relate.

With about 20 minutes left on the trip, Clark hit a boulder in the stream and flipped over. Her tube and oars quickly floated downstream. Her life vest rode up past her head, and she was struggling for air.

“I always wondered how people drowned in small water before this happened,” she said. “The water was so swift, I couldn’t catch my breath. It was really terrifying.”

 

 

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It was at this moment of peril that the Sefoloshas came up the river. Thabo asked if he could help, then helped lift her into his raft.

“I don’t know how I would’ve gotten her 20 more minutes down the river,” [friend Heidi] Bishop recalled. “He really did save her life.”

As Clark was trying to soothe her nerves from the ordeal, she made idle conversation with the family, who was speaking in a foreign language. Sefolosha said he had recently moved from Atlanta for work.

“When I asked him where he worked, he just said he worked for the Jazz, not that he played for them,” Clark said. “I kind of figured he was a player because his feet were so big.”

 

 

((no dueling banjos were involved in this story))

~lw3