A woman has miraculously survived after being stranded on a lake on top of a mattress in -10C.
From Wednesday, February 2, to Thursday, February 3, a woman drifted for around two miles across Lake Texoma in Oklahoma.
The woman was rescued by members of a train crew who discovered her after she floated ashore next to a train track.
The temperature was -2C on Wednesday and reached a low of -10C on Thursday.
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Train Conductor Cristhian Sosa and Train Engineer Justin Luster were travelling from Madill, Oklahoma, to Irving, Texas, onboard a freight train when they found the woman shouting and waving her hands for help, KRMG reports.
Sosa stated: 'She was literally laying on the ground waving one arm, basically her left arm, the one that her arm wasn’t stuck with her jacket and she was asking for help so we instantly knew she was hurt and she needed help.'
While he admitted the duo first thought the woman was 'delirious,' he explained that once they got to the crossing 'where highway patrolman had come out to find out her story was accurate,' that they realised she had indeed been 'floating on that air mattress for a solid day or two'.
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'She had no recollection of time, she had said she had been there for almost two days hiding under an air mattress,' Sosa noted, as per KTRE.
The woman identified herself as being called Connie, according to freight network operator BNSF, NBC News reports.
Connie told the crew she had become separated from a man prior to ending up on the partially frozen reservoir.
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According to Oklahoma Highway Patrol, the pair had been trying to reach a boat on the lake using the blow-up mattress, The Independent reports.
'She mentioned something about Ranger Station, I guess on the other side of the lake, I guess she has a boat and some of her stuff started drifting away and she tried to catch it and before she knew it she was on top of her air mattress and she was a drift and there was nothing she could do and she ended up by the rocks,' Sosa stated.
Upon finding Connie, the train's crew feared she had hypothermia and so took her to warm up by the second engine, alongside calling emergency services.
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The crew noted that Connie was struggling to walk and that her hands were cut and bleeding.
Despite this, she is expected to make a full recovery and is under the care of the local hospital.
Luster concluded: 'With the weather we were having we were the only train out there at the time and really unexpected and I’m glad we could be there when we were.'
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Poppy Bilderbeck