A North Carolina man made a “calculated risk,” jumping into fast-moving, Helene-swollen waters to save a woman because he “couldn’t watch her die.”Eddie Hunnell, 57, was in Grassy Creek ahead of son Austin Hunnell’s Saturday wedding when he saw floodwaters picking up Lesley Worth’s home.
“When it was happening, I was trying to make a calculated risk.
How do we save her?” said Hunnell, who lives about 200 miles away in Holly Springs, just outside Raleigh.
I was a lifeguard (and I’m in) OK shape and I just couldn’t watch her die," he told NBC affiliate WRAL in an interview that aired Monday.
“I felt like I needed to do that.”It wasn’t until Hunnell went to bed that the event’s enormity struck him.
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Helene, Eddie Hunnell, Austin Hunnell’s, Lesley Worth’s, Worth, Hunnell, ”, “, enormity
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NBC, WRAL
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Carolina, Grassy, New, Holly Springs, Raleigh, Worth