Three days? In a septic tank? I was warned by the contractor who connected our house with city water that if I climbed down into the old cistern, even with the lid off, the lack of oxygen would kill me. Something about this story “doesn’t smell right”.
Just what kind of DIY "maintenance" goes on in a septic tank? Was there a youtube video involved? Jeff Foxworthy how-tos?
Anderson says the woman was found lying with her face just above the raw sewage.
Ahhh, just another day on Facebook then..
That's what happens when this kind of stuff leaches out, the whole world gets wind. What can you do.
It would really add insult to injury if she had toilet paper stuck on her shoe. Ugh.
I would suggest that the amount of oxygen at nose level depends on how deep the tank is, how far below surface the top of the tank is, how tall the person is and perhaps whether it was windy or not (and whether it was protected from winds by winds, trees etc)... there are lots of variables but most tanks are either 6 or 8 feet deep so she obviously was close enough to the hole where the lid normally goes that she got enough. The article also says that "...she had fallen through about a 2-foot by 2-foot hole in kind of the rusted metal top of the tank." Since she broke through, the hole was likely much larger than the standard 18" x 18" hole so even more oxygen came in. What I want to know is who on earth would have used a 'metal top'? Did they not know they were creating a death trap?
There was a 2x2 rusted out hole in the top, so that probably allowed enough oxygen in for her to just barely survive.