30 Years after his Father Drowned in a Rescue Son Rescues Woman from Flood

[RamboLiberal]

LITHIA SPRINGS, Georgia (CNN) -- As Zack Stephney stepped into the floodwaters last week, history washed over him.

The youngest of five children, he was only 8 when his father died.

For three decades, he'd carried with him mere snapshots of memories: Family time at Christmas. Riding on the back of Dad's motorcycle. Tommie Stephney's love for drag-racing.

But as the 37-year-old Douglasville, Georgia, man set out September 22 to try and save a woman whose car was swept away by rushing waters, he thought of his father's drowning. He, too, had fought to rescue people struggling against currents.

That was in 1979.

Tommie Stephney, a City of Atlanta employee, dove into the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta, Georgia, to save canoeists who'd flipped their boat, his son said. He safely brought two to shore. The third, he said, panicked -- forcing them both under. It would be a week before his father's body was found.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/10/02/father.son.flood.heroes/index.html


Thirty years after his father drowned in a rescue attempt, Zack Stephney helped save a woman whose car sank.

And kudos to his coworkers of Werner Enterprises, a large trucking company, who joined in the rescue.

[abelenkpe2]

1. I'm sure his pop would be proud

Good story. Good job!

[tblue]

2. Wow! What a story. Zack Stephney, what a hero!

:cry: Sniff.

[ljm2002]

3. What a good guy!

And what a lucky woman that he was there to make it happen.