Saturday evening, Tony Luu and his two friends got into what they thought would be a typical elevator ride. But it was everything but that.
The three nearly drowned as water flooded the elevator, rising to their necks.
The incident happed inside a downtown Omaha apartment elevator, and it was caught on tape.
The group of friends were on their way to observe the damage of the ongoing hail and flash floods, the New York Post reported. But they found themselves stuck in it on the apartment’s ground floor when water engulfed the lobby.
“Once it got to my stomach, we kind of figured, ‘OK, this is real,’” Luu told ABC News. “It was like something out of a movie.”
Video footage shows the elevator jolting and water rushing in from below, and then the doors close.
Luckily, as the water nearly submerged them, Luu’s friend was able to make a call to emergency services to help them. However, they were able to force the elevator doors open before helped arrived and escaped.
Daylon Guy, Luu’s friend, told the Omaha World-Herald that four other people were stuck in another elevator in the same apartment complex. He said no one in either elevator sought medical attention.
“It was pretty traumatizing, but they seemed to be doing well,” he told the paper.
