“I mean I’m lucky to be alive. Even the doctors were saying that it was a miracle that I’m even here.' Alabama man survives 35-foot tumble at waterfall
By Patrick Camp, The Cullman Times
They drove to the site and hiked down the short distance from the road until reaching the creek bed that spills over 50 or so feet to the bottom of the falls. It was peaceful, Siler said, as the sound of distant thunder and rain just beginning to hit the canopy of leaves above them created a calming effect. The only concern on her mind was snakes. As they reached the falls, Siler remembers pausing to look at a white sign with red lettering nailed to a tree that read “Warning: Slippery Rocks.
Roden was barely conscious and doesn’t remember much from his first fall, other than the sound of his friend calling down to him. The second, 35-foot fall left Roden at the bottom of the falls with a list of potentially life-threatening injuries. Roden’s neck was broken at C1, a vertebrae near the top of the neck, seven of his ribs were broken, his right lung had collapsed, along with his sternum and both sides of his pelvis. He had also broken his hand.
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