March 7, 2019
"Caroline said that as her big sister kept watch at night for wild animals, 'I thought of going to the park with mommy and daddy. I thought of going to the ocean. I thought of everything but it didn't work.'"
From "Rescued California sisters, ages 8 and 5, say they survived by drinking rainwater from leaves and keeping 'happy thoughts' about their family" (ABC News).
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Leia said they also used survival skills they learned on family camping trips, their participation in 4-H and from watching movies about people being lost.
And there’s the key right there. Two girls without those skills — some hikers would find their bones a few years from now. Note that the girls knew to stay in one place after they realized they were lost (and that they realized they were lost to begin with).
as Big Mike said
BE PREPARED!
and i Don't mean; be prepared to sit next to your mom at a table at the mall,
while people come and buy your cookies
"had faith that their daddy was coming to save them"
Hmm.
A kid I knew from church got lost in the woods in SoCal, when he was about that age. I think he was gone 5 days before they found him. He had better weather, though. It was big in the news at the time.
Its been a long time, well before the internet, and I can't find any evidence of it.
Near Benbow? Rough country. Pretty, but rough. Finding water shouldn't be problem this time of year. Staying dry and warm though . . .
In considerably darker news involving little girls, soulless monster Chris Watts confessed that he put his four-year-old and his three-year-old in his truck along with his wife's body, then drive 45 minutes, buried his wife while they watched, smothered the younger girl with her blankie, then did the same to the older girl as she pleaded for him not to hurt her. Not sure how he avoided the death penalty, but I can't imagine he's going to live long in prison.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/christopher-watts-case-family-murders-confession-details-lawyer-dr-phil-interview/
Tom T., get your own blog.
Thank God those girls are safe.
"had faith that their daddy was coming to save them"
I teared-up when I read that. I believe that most moms turn into warrior-goddesses when it comes to protecting their children; yet at the same time, there's another dimension to the protective and solid nature of a good dad.
I did something similar when I was nine and my best friend was seven. We were the only kids living in an apartment building in downtown Pittsburgh, and our single moms let us roam the building and grounds freely so we were often gone for hours. One Saturday I decided that it was a great idea to show my younger friend where I went to school, which was in the Oakland neighborhood. Normally I took a city bus to school, but figured we could walk there no problem. I mean, it only took about 10 minutes on the bus, right? Well, it was three miles away and took a LOT longer than I thought it would to get there. By the time we were walking back, it was getting dark and I started thinking this was not such a great idea. Also, the route took us through the Hill District of Pittsburgh, which is an historic Black neighborhood where I do believe literally no white people lived. No one bothered us but we did get some looks and some kind folks asking us if we were lost---nope, I know where we need to go, it's just taking forever to get there. And I honestly didn't understand why our moms were so upset with us after we finally got home, didn't they know that I always had it all under control?
Good things can happen when people aren't wasting precious resources hunting ephemeral wyrms.
A Good news story.
and from the other viewpoint, I'm good with spending $100,000 and a zillion volunteer hours to save two little girls.
I'm less sanguine about doing the same for a couple of 30 yo adventure freaks who get in over their heads.
My parents had a TERRIBLE approach to preparing us for life. They'd continually tell us how "smart" we were and how we "knew enough" about whatever the subject at hand was, and told us how proud they were of us (though we'd done nothing). And as a consequence, I first lit a match when I was 10 or 11 (and I was terrified), first touched a knife around the same agree, was almost raped through my own fault at 16, married the absolute worst person for me at 21... It was only after I was divorced at 23 that I started making an effort to learn about and then DO things so I wouldn't be so vulnerable. Bravo to these parents for taking stock of their home environment (extensive wildland) and trying to request their very young daughters with some tools to cope with the unexpected.
Heck. Equip, not request.
"'Leia wanted a little, tiny more adventure. But I wanted more,' Caroline said of how their misadventure Friday afternoon started."
That's the five-year-old talking.
Maybe 8 year olds should be allowed to have cell phones after all.
Maybe 8 year olds should be allowed to have cell phones after all.
Which won't do them any good if they've come to rely on that ... and there's no coverage.
Maybe 8 year olds should be allowed to have cell phones after all.
As noted above, rough country -- you might get coverage on a ridge, but otherwise, no.
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