Chris Hemsworth's wife Elsa Pataky escapes flood through car window
Actress and Hemsworth live in Australia with three children
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Your support makes all the difference.Elsa Pataky has shared the scary experience she had with flooding that required her to escape out her car window.
On Monday, Pataky, who is married to Chris Hemsworth, posted Instagram Stories of herself getting stuck while attempting to drive through flooded streets in Byron Bay, Australia.
“I got stuck, yes. Awesome. Oh god, oh god, what am I doing?” the 44-year-old can be heard saying in one clip reposted by a fan account.
In the clip, the Fast and Furious actress shows the high muddy water that has trapped her in her car.
“A bit too optimistic? I was so sure I could cross,” Pataky captioned the video. “What two days of rain can do!”
In another video, in which she explained in the caption that her only escape from the flooded car was through the window, Pataky can be seen jumping down from the car into knee-high water and attempting to make her way to two of the couple’s children, who are standing nearby on a portion of the road that isn’t flooded.
Pataky’s final video from the ordeal, which she captioned “Are you ready for the rescue??”, shows Hemsworth’s personal trainer Luke Zocchi and a couple other men preparing to tow the car from the water.
“What would I do without you guys?” she can be heard asking.
Hemsworth, Pataky and their three children, daughter India, seven, and six-year-old twin boys Tristan and Sasha, moved back to the Avengers star’s native Australia in 2015 after he began feeling “suffocated” in Los Angeles.
“When you’re suffocated by the work, every conversation that you’re having and every billboard you’re seeing is to do with a movie or whatever around the industry, you lose perspective,” Hemsworth told The Sunday Telegraph recently of the family’s decision. “There’s not a single person that I interact with, or close friends of mine, that are really in the industry and so that’s hugely refreshing.
“It’s great for my kids and my wife.”
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