Anybody notice the messed up post numbers or is it just my computer?
The top of this page was #5 and its counting backwards down to 1.
This is page 19 so our count is much higher than that.
Thats a page 1 count.
Never mind, after I finished this post they were back to normal again???
I just got a scary call from my best friend.
She and her dad were up in the mountains at the pit picking up brass for extra money. ( the pit's where people go and shoot guns) They do this about every 3 months.
It has about 8 inches of snow there but the roads were good enough for their truck.
They spent all morning and got a lot of brass and decided to go back a different way which takes them to a nice country town called Estacada.
So they drove a few miles then went around a corner and hit deep snow that turned them off the road into a 2 foot ditch.
They couldnt get out no matter how hard they tried and no service on the cell phone up there.
They decided to walk out until they could get cell service instead of staying with the truck. I would have stayed myself until I ran out of gas to keep us warm.
Her dad is 80 and is in terrible health. He has had every heart surgery imaginable and has poor balance and congestive heart failure. She has MS but manages pretty good. She knew her husband would get home from work and be trying to find her.
So they walked in up to 2 feet of snow from 4:30 until just after 10:30 at night in 20 degree weather. he fell 20 times and she fell in a ditch once and was soaked from the mid thigh down to the feet so she was hurting pretty bad. She had agood layered coat on and gloves but they got wet, her dad didnt have a good coat or gloves.
About 8:30 she did manage to get through to a cousin and briefly told her where they were before losing servicea gain. They had a flashlight and a full moon which helped.
About 10:30 they saw head lights coming but it wasnt her husband instead it was 3 drunk men. She siad she was scared and so was her dad but they were in such bad shape they didnt care and got in the car with them.
They got a couple miles down the road and found her husband who drove them back home. He had called 911 and asked them to connect him with the 911 for the county they were in and they wouldnt do it! So he had no way to get them help. It was terrible. So he just took off driving to the area he thought they would be in.
They are ok but tired and sore today. That was truly a miracle they survived.
Next day a tow truck pulled the truck out of the ditch and it was ok too.
I bet they dont try that agin until summer!!
Kathy
But only because I care
