Last Saturday, and elderly woman in New Jersey went for a drive. She got stuck in soft sand, and could not free her vehicle.
She was without food, and was in a remote area. While she was able to collect rainwater, the weather was extreme – in the 90s some days.
By Thursday, she was in fairly bad shape.
Luckily, she was on or near Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. Yesterday, some soldiers from the MA ARNG training on the installation spotted her.
She’s doing fine now. Kudos, men.
Fox today has a decent if short story on the incident. It’s worth a read, and IMO is a nice way to start the day.
Well, she’s lucky they found her. The pinelands are not just confusing. They are the same as any other wilderness: dangerous as all getout if you don’t know how to navigate them.
She was very lucky they found her.
“the weather was extreme – in the 90s some days.”
Now – not to less the woman’s suffering, but in the East Texas Pineywoods (also a sandy place) “in the 90’s” for this time of year is cool.
And I ought to add that as a recipient of many letters touting the virtue of this or that Social Security Medicaid plan, by some accounts I am “elderly.”
But BZ on the men rescuing her.
“not to less the woman’s” sheesh.
“I plead insufficient coffee, y’Honor.”
EDIT: “not to discount the woman’s”
Temp (not heat index) got into the upper 90s during that period, Graybeard. For NJ, weather consistently in the 90s is hot; upper 90s qualifies as extreme for that area. She doubtless wasn’t as acclimated to that kind of head/humidity as people in East Texas.
She was also 87.
A remote part of New Jersey – I didn’t know there was such a thing.