Lessons learned from the Oregon tragedy

You don't starve in six days. You can run out of water, but
cold exposure is more likely. Was anybody looking for the
person you spoke about?



"Ron Wanttaja" wrote in message
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| On 10 Dec 2006 08:35:07 -0800, wrote:
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| Matt Whiting wrote:
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| I know that is the standard advice, but I'm not sure I
could follow it
| for more than a day or two. Personally, I'd rather die
trying than die
| sitting waiting on someone who may never come.
|
| I know what you're saying Matt, but I don't think I've
ever heard of
| anybody dying in their car when they got stuck. I'm sure
there's a
| couple of cases, but from all the stories I've heard in
our general
| area (you're in Montrose right?) the vast majority of
exposure deaths
| were when people left a protective shelter.
|
| Seattle-area news last night said that this was not the
first death due to a car
| getting stuck on the same stretch of road. Another
happened about twenty,
| twenty-five years ago. The driver stayed with the
vehicle. He kept a diary, it
| ended after about sixty days. Death due to starvation.
|
| Ron Wanttaja

Jim Macklin wrote:

You don't starve in six days. You can run out of water, but
cold exposure is more likely. Was anybody looking for the
person you spoke about?

What part of sixty didn't you understand? :-)


Matt

Another poster said six. Sixty days, yes, you can starve.
But that sounds more like a suicide by cold. Nobody was
looking for a car on a road for two months...???



"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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| Jim Macklin wrote:
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| You don't starve in six days. You can run out of water,
but
| cold exposure is more likely. Was anybody looking for
the
| person you spoke about?
|
| What part of sixty didn't you understand? :-)
|
|
| Matt

Jim Macklin wrote:
Another poster said six. Sixty days, yes, you can starve.
But that sounds more like a suicide by cold. Nobody was
looking for a car on a road for two months...???

Must be my newsserver didn't pick that one up as all I read said sixty.
Yes, it is hard to imagine anyone other than a complete recluse not
being missed for two months.

Matt

"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
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You don't starve in six days. You can run out of water, but
cold exposure is more likely. Was anybody looking for the
person you spoke about?


60 days. And, yes looking the whole time. Found them in the spring.

Al G