It might be a miracle for a family to survive being stranded in the deep mountain snow for 2 weeks.
On a television set 70 miles away, Ashland police Detective Brent Jensen watched a family reunion he did not expect to see. After 12 days of heading the police search, Jensen said the only skimpy information they had hinted on a kidnapping.
“That was neat,” Jensen said of watching the reunion. “I was thinking we’d have the opposite of that.” (LINK)
The six family members reunited are:
The six relatives - Pete Stivers, 29, and Marlo Hill-Stivers, 31; their children Sabastyan, 9, and Gabrayell, 8; and Stiver’s mother and stepfather, Becky and Elbert Higginbotham - were stranded at more than 1 200m in a mountain range in southern Oregon when they had tried to take a shortcut on a two-hour journey to the coast. (LINK)
Their survival was all because they:
Luckily, they had plenty of gas for the motor home, propane for a heater and more than enough dehydrated, prepackaged meals the Higginbothams put together to survive a Y2K disaster that never came. (LINK)
This story, reminds me of a couple with their newly born baby who experienced the same for 8 days but they have no food to eat and no heater.
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