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jakeXT

(10,575 posts)
Wed Nov 26, 2014, 04:16 AM Nov 2014

Engulfed in snow, stranded motorist ‘felt like I was underground, buried in a casket’

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Rossi, who just turned 47, found a scrap of paper in her purse, tore it in half and started farewell notes to her daughters.

“I wrote letters to both of them,” she said.

Although she was wet, cold and exhausted, she continued to climb out the window, crawl her way up and wave the red snow brush out of the hole in the snowbank, hoping it would attract someone’s attention. Finally, it did.

“He saw me because I had decided to crawl out the window and started digging up and finally broke through with the red snow brush,” she said. “I waved that forever. My arm would get sore, and I would stop, and then start again.”

Then she heard a voice.

“I see you, I’m going to get you out,” a man’s voice yelled out. “I have a shovel.”

http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/weather/engulfed-in-snow-stranded-motorist-felt-like-i-was-underground-buried-in-a-casket-20141122

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Engulfed in snow, stranded motorist ‘felt like I was underground, buried in a casket’ (Original Post) jakeXT Nov 2014 OP
couldn't her daughter have called somebody for help? Voice for Peace Nov 2014 #1
Logic probably fails us in such situations sometimes. jakeXT Nov 2014 #2
the article said her daughter told her to keep the exhaust pipe clear... Voice for Peace Nov 2014 #3

jakeXT

(10,575 posts)
2. Logic probably fails us in such situations sometimes.
Wed Nov 26, 2014, 02:06 PM
Nov 2014

I wonder if the daughter had heard the phone at 3 am.

 

Voice for Peace

(13,141 posts)
3. the article said her daughter told her to keep the exhaust pipe clear...
Wed Nov 26, 2014, 05:25 PM
Nov 2014

and the mother knew approximately where she was, and that
she was stuck.

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