Hurricane Harvey: Man electrocuted in floodwaters as he tried to save family cat
Andrew Pasek 'felt the shock' as he waded near to a lamppost
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Your support makes all the difference.A grieving mother whose son was electrocuted in Hurricane Harvey's floodwaters on a mission to rescue his cat, has warned others against doing the same.
After realising the creature was stranded at his sister's house, Andrew Pasek, 25, decided wade five miles from his mother's Houston home to rescue it, along with his friend Sean Stuart.
But as he stepped into the water "he felt the shock", his mother Jodell Pasek told news channel, WFAA.
"Sean reached for him to try and pull him and Andrew said ‘No, I’m dying. And you will die too.’ And he just fell over in the water," she added.
“They couldn’t get him out. Nobody could touch him. Nobody could resuscitate him. Nobody could help him and they had to leave him there in the water for over an hour."
Fearful that they would also be electrocuted if they tried to retrieve his body, they had to wait until an energy company switched off the power before they could do so,.
Ms Pasek said:" That could happen. And it just so happened it happened to my son.”
She also urged the public to think before entering the water themselves.
“That’s the only reason why I’m doing this," she said. "I just wanted it to be for something. If this can save one other life or bunches of lives it would be something where I could say I helped somebody with his departure.”
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