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[Previous entry: "Flu shots really work."] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Depressing Guardian fluff piece about being too old to be creative."] 09/25/2005 Entry: "Keith Moon's birthday party or Car meets swimming pool." Keith Moon's birthday party or Car meets swimming pool. I'm usually blown away at how difficult it is to get out of a submerged automobile. The water shorts out the power windows and the pressure from the outside makes it almost impossible to swing the door open. The woman was unable to figure out how to open the car windows to escape and was trapped in the sinking car. A resident of the complex had attempted to rescue the woman by breaking a window with a baseball bat, but was unsuccessful. Redmond firefighters, who were the first on the scene, got on top of the car as it was sinking and broke out the sunroof and rear window with their fire axes and pulled the woman out through the sunroof. Witnesses say the woman’s shrinking air pocket as about 8” when she was pulled to safety.