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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.
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As a boy growing up in Albuquerque’s Northeast Heights, Alexander Corrie was a voracious reader and a natural musician. At the age of 7 he got his first guitar and his passion followed him throughout his life. He played soccer in school and loved reading books about scientific theories and Stephen Hawking – topics he would then spend hours discussing with his father.
As he grew up Alexander struggled with mental health issues, post-traumatic stress disorder and “alcohol was his demon,” his father Jeremy Corrie said.
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Last week, the 31-year-old was one of three men swept away as torrential rains rushed through the diversion channels during a sudden storm.