Woman Buried By Snow In Cambridge Shares Terrifying Story
CAMBRIDGE (CBS) – A woman walking in Cambridge Wednesday night was buried by snow in just an instant. She says it was terrifying.
Michaella Costa was among a group of people trapped when snow fell off the roof of the Simoni Ice Rink.
"It happened so quick, and I was just stuck," Costa says. "I could not move and I was covered completely."
Costa was making a grocery run for her grandmother and used the path by the ice rink as a shortcut. She and three men got stuck in the snow slide.
"I just kept moving my head, and I got it out and I just started screaming for help," she says.
Several good Samaritans rushed to help, digging at first with their hands and then with shovels.
"I didn't want to freak out and freak myself out so I just tried to remain calm," she says.
Costa was dug out in minutes, but it seemed like a lot longer. "I was freezing," she says, "freezing."
The good Samaritans then freed the other victims.
Michaella, who has a sore neck, was treated and released from the hospital.
"It was really heavy," she says of the snow. "A child could have died, anybody could have been severely injured and thankfully nobody was."
The path beside the rink was closed on Thursday as workers cleared the rest of the snow off the roof.
