Here’s a headline that sounds almost too wild to be true: a woman who was declared brain-dead and showing no signs of life reportedly woke up after the ambulance transporting her hit a pothole. Doctors are calling it miraculous. Fort McMurray drivers are just nodding knowingly.
Because anyone who drives around town knows what a pothole can do. Our roads have craters that could swallow a tire, bumps that rattle your coffee, and mysterious sinkholes that appear overnight. Forget caffeine. Sometimes all it takes is hitting the right bump at the right speed to jolt you awake.
You can imagine the paramedics’ shock: “Hang on, Ma’am, you might feel a little bump. BOOM. she blinked!” Meanwhile, people here are just trying to avoid bottoming out in the Tim Hortons parking lot downtown.
The takeaway? Miracles do happen. And maybe, just maybe, Fort McMurray’s potholes aren’t a problem… they’re a life‑restoring force in disguise.
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