Daily Mail staff in 1. Houston flood waters. Burned from head to toe and submerged in Hurricane Harveys raging floodwaters, Ruaridh Connellan could feel his strength ebbing away as he clung to just a flimsy branch for survival. But before the 2. Dig deep buddy, dig deep nobody is dying on my watch. The voice was that of his Daily. Mail. com colleague Alan Butterfield who, along with Connellan and five other men had boarded a rescue boat Monday afternoon only to be electrocuted and tossed overboard when it hit power lines. Two of the boats crew drowned, another two are missing but Butterfield, Connellan and a third man, Jose Vizueth, clung desperately to trees for 1. Tuesday 1. 8 hours later, Lucky to be alive Senior reporter Alan Butterfield right and photojournalist Ruaridh Connellan were reunited in a Houston hospital on Thursday where they are recovering from their burns and other injuries. The journalists desperately clung to branches and trees as they fought the current for 1. Connellans miraculous survival owes much to his steely determination to see his family again and to the dogged persistence of Butterfield who coaxed and cajoled his young friend through the night to keep him from submitting to Hurricane Harvey. The two men were reunited today for the first time since their harrowing ordeal amid emotional scenes at Houstons Memorial Hermann Greater Heights Hospital. You remember asking me to tell your girlfriend and your parents that you loved them I was like no way dude, tell them yourself, said Butterfield, 5. I told you we were gonna make it. Driver Bluetooth Wireless Networking 802.11 B/G/N. There was no way that stinky, dirty bayou was going to be my grave. The pair hadnt seen each other since they were whisked to safety two days earlier on a Texas Department of Public Safety rescue boat and taken to separate ends of the hospitals ER department. I know it sounds cheesy but I had that Gloria Gaynor song I will Survive playing constantly in my head because Alan kept promising me we would survive, Connellan added. And here we are. Against all the odds we are alive. The two journalists were in Houston covering Hurricane Harvey for Daily. Toggle navigation ZX Spectrum Reviews. Magazines. Crash Your Sinclair Your Spectrum Sinclair User CVG Ace Crash Smashes. Top VIdeos. Warning Invalid argument supplied for foreach in srvusersserverpilotappsjujaitalypublicindex. F1 Driver Killed In Powerboat' title='F1 Driver Killed In Powerboat' />F1 Driver Killed In PowerboatsMail. The drama began about 3pm Monday afternoon when they chanced upon a group of volunteers trying to reach an elderly, wheelchair bound woman trapped by floodwaters. Butterfield and Connellan board a motorboat with five others but as the vessel tried to navigate Houstons water logged Normandy neighborhood the current dragged it towards fallen power lines. I looked over and saw sparks coming from the wires and the transformers, said Butterfield, a father of two. I knew that if we went into it we would be fried. I leapt off the bow of the boat and the current took me right under the wires, they were a few feet above me. EC36900000578-5077887-image-a-24_1510588155145.jpg' alt='F1 Driver Killed In Powerboat' title='F1 Driver Killed In Powerboat' />F1 Driver Killed In Powerboat AdventuresWelcome to the Mercury Racing blog. Keep dialedin on the latest product news, service tips, racing highlights, historical features and event coverage from. THE TEN DECADES OF ALFA ROMEO Source Alfa Romeo 1910 1920 The Alfa Romeo story started in Milan on 24, June 1910. That was the day a group of entrepreneurs and. I would be gone if they had touched me. Connellan also leaped off the boat to try to swim away but was impeded by his thick rubber raincoat and two heavy cameras slung over both shoulders. I looked over and saw sparks coming from the wires and the transformers, said Butterfield, a father of two. I knew that if we went into it we would be fried. I leapt off the bow of the boat and the current took me right under the wires, they were a few feet above me. I would be gone if they had touched me. I was holding on to the flimsiest end of the branch. I helped Alan take off his socks and shoes and pushed him up with one hand while holding on with the other, said ConnellanI felt my whole body being zapped. Ive never felt anything like it, he told Daily. Mail. comI was screaming with the pain but then it stopped. I felt relieved for a split second or so and then I felt the electricity again. Then I just started to drift away. The trio of Butterfield, Connellan and Vizueth all managed to grab hold of a capsized dinghy that had been latched to their boat but had come loose. As the floodwaters swept them downstream Butterfield spotted a low hanging branch and urged them to ditch the dinghy and grab it. Spanish speaking Vizueth, 3. Connellan nor Butterfield, who had suffered a dislocated shoulder, could get a foothold. I was holding on to the flimsiest end of the branch. I helped Alan take off his socks and shoes and pushed him up with one hand while holding on with the other, said Connellan. But that left nobody to help me and I just didnt have the strength to do it by myself. After a while I came to terms with the fact I couldnt get up there. Rather than wasting my energy pulling myself up, I needed to preserve my strength to hang on to the branch. The three survivors were just 2. While Butterfield and Vizueth clung to the limbs of the tree, Connellan was powerless to do anything aside from gripping on to his branch measuring about 2. Viking Popup Camper Manual. I had been holding on for four or five hours. My arms hurt more and more. I feel like I kept hallucinating, seeing boats and dogs, said Connellan. When I thought about just giving up and letting go I would remember my girlfriend Sarah, our dog Leroy and our apartment in New York. The thought of never seeing them again would make my grip stronger. And every time I felt weak I would hear Alan calling out to me. He would say we are gonna survive, you have to get through this. Butterfield, who has a 2. Andrew, was not prepared to see his colleague join the tragic toll of Hurricane Harveys victims. You couldnt talk all that much because the winds were howling and it was raining hard, it sucked, it really did, he said. But I I would yell out Ruaridh are you alive I said to him just be tough. Dude you gotta suck it up, go to the deepest depths of your soul. Youre not gonna die, I promise you. The two men were rushed to the hospital after their 1. Connellan was treated for head to toe burns and lacerations to his hands. He also had bites from spiders and red ants all over his face and neck. Butterfield was treated for his injured shoulder, burns and various cuts and bruises. Both men are expected to make a full recovery. Butterfield pictured with hood on left and photojournalist Ruaridh Connellan right was one of the seven men onboard a boat when it was electrocuted by submerged power lines in Houston on Monday. They were filmed on a Facebook Live video shortly before the accidentI honestly believed it. I just kept saying pray to whatever god you believe in. I never had one thought about us dying. In the early hours of the morning Connellans branch eventually snapped off and he found himself once more being dragged away by the surging waters. However he managed to summon up enough strength to swim towards another crop of bushes. By a stroke of luck, the vegetation he grabbed hold of was tangled up with barbed wire and firmly anchored down. The bush was full of trash and all kinds of unsavory rubbish but it was like a little refuge from the storm, Connellan said. Luckily it was only about 6. Alan so I could shout back to say I was OK. After daybreak the three men decided upon a new survival strategy that would ultimately save their lives Taking turns to yell for help. There was wind and rain and rushing water so I doubted anyone would ever hear us, said Connellan. But a few hours later I hear something a reply. Someone was shouting back at me. Cerec Software 4.3'>Cerec Software 4.3. Within half an hour we saw their boat come round the corner. I was the most relieved Ive ever been in my life. I didnt have any strength left to climb up so they dragged me into the boat.