- A woman was rescued after floating two miles on a freezing
Oklahoma lake on an air mattress, officials said. - She told her rescuers that she had been on the lake for two days before reaching shore.
A woman was rescued after drifting for about two days on an air mattress on an Oklahoma lake, local reports said.
Workers for BNSF railway spotted the woman, who identified herself only as "Connie," as they passed through Mead, Oklahoma, en route to Irving, Texas, local channel KTRE reported.
The woman was found alone near the railway line, "literally laying on the ground waving one arm," train conductor Cristhian Sosa told the channel.
Her hands were bleeding, she was showing signs of hypothermia, and was struggling to walk, a BNSF Railway spokesperson told NBC News. Train staff brought the train to a halt and radioed the dispatcher for emergency services, BNSF said.
An Oklahoma Highway Patrol spokesperson told KTRE that the woman had started out at Ranger Station, on the other side of the lake, and had drifted two miles before reaching shore.
Yelling for help, she told them she had been separated from her partner two days and had been adrift that long, KTRE reported.
"She had no recollection of time," Sosa said.
"Well naturally we thought maybe she was delirious, we really didn't know what really happened," he said, adding that an Oklahoma Highway patrolman had since confirmed her estimate of the time frame.
"It wasn't until we got to the crossing where highway patrolman had come out to find out her story was accurate, she had been floating on that air mattress for a solid day or two."
The woman and a man had been trying to reach a boat on Lake Texoma using the air mattress, KTRE reported, citing Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
The man managed to reach shore and a house to warm up in, the highway patrol spokesperson told KTRE.
The woman was taken to the hospital and is expected to survive, the spokesperson added.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
The weather-tracking sites TimeAndDate.com and LocalCondnitions.com reported that the highest temperature on the day of the