Not sure how much play things like this are getting in the mainstream media; the full story is available online... One minute, the drivers trying to navigate mostly submerged Interstate 10 in Houston were a collection of battered, desperate souls trying to cope with a disaster of epic proportions as it enveloped them. Then, before going their separate ways moments later, they became a thin line of heroes who formed a human chain to rescue a man trapped in an SUV that was at the mercy of the floodwaters. Maritzza Castillo and her husband had been en route to help a family member, but submerged roads prevented them from completing the trip. Then they saw it. An elderly man was behind the wheel of an SUV being swept away. “My heart started beating fast,” Castillo said. They and others jumped into the water. “Somebody said, ‘Let’s form a chain,'” Castillo said. “The people had no rope to get him out so they made a chain holding each other,” Stephanie Mata told Mashable. “They pulled the door open and one gentleman got ahold of him as they held on until they got him safe.” Castillo said the man was taken to a hospital and reunited with his son. The Interstate 10 event was not the only time Texans came together to help those in need. On Tuesday, neighbors of Andrea and Greg Smith left Andrea, who was due to give birth, planning to have her daughter at home. Instead, neighbors arranged for a pickup to plow through the waters outside their home. Neighbors then formed a chain in the waist-high water and helped the Smiths to the truck so the child could be born in a hospital.
Yes, we are amazing that way. However I think this is more a human trait than an American one. It shows how we are different from the animal kingdom. By the way, the guy on the far left looks like Hugo from Lost.
