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Back in August 2014, then-Eldorado High School junior Juanita Womack was standing in the Embudo Channel talking with a friend when she was suddenly swept away by flood waters.
Juanita screamed for help during a nearly 2.5-mile harrowing ride before two quick-thinking police officers used jackets tied together to fish her out. Juanita’s mother told the Journal her daughter had lived her entire life in New Mexico and been told not to go into arroyos, “but you know teenagers.”
Just before Juanita’s perilous experience on the same day, an unidentified middle-aged man was pulled from the Embudo Channel near Morningside and Cutler NE.