Posted on 11/28/2018 12:38:27 PM PST by BenLurkin
CAWKER CITY, Kan. (KAKE) -
A northern Kansas woman who went missing after her car got stuck in a weekend blizzard has been found dead.
Authorities at the Mitchell County command center for the search say the body of 37-year-old Tanya Eshbaugh, of Cawker City, was found in a field near Waconda Lake, about three miles from her car. She was on her way to work Sunday morning when she called in to say she wasn't going to make it due to the weather and was turning around to go home.
"It is believed that after getting her vehicle stuck in the ditch due to blizzard conditions that she exited the vehicle...," a flyer from Kansas Missing & Unsolved says.
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True,I never even thought of that.:-)
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She no doubt knew where she was, it was her daily drive to and from work. That made her overconfident, she got out and started walking. Disorientation comes very easily in whiteout conditions, she could have wandered for hours. Body heat doesn’t stay “amped up,” especially if she wasn’t really dressed for it. Hypothermia is deceptive too, you can feel quite warm or even hot, while your core body temperature is getting dangerously low. Then comes the tiredness, the sleepiness. Stop, sit down to rest just a minute, then fall asleep and you freeze to death.
She could have panicked. In a heavy enough snow one could easily begin wandering in circles without knowing it. Unless you can see a house or business in the distance, it's always best to wait it out in the shelter of ones own car.
Well she was a Cornhuskers fan, it seems.
Sleeping bags, candles and a tin, sand, shovel, boots and raingear, toque, spare warm jacket, scarf, mittens.
That’s minimum if you are travelling alone anywhere there’s snow. At least that’s how I was taught.
You see fall blizzards are a sign of global warming...LOL
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Just what I was thinking.
Here in Eastern PA, I guess we’re past the point where it rains every day, so now it seems like it’s going to SNOW every day. I’m beginning to seriously envy people who don’t live here (except New Jersey. I don’t think I could ever envy anyone who lives in New Jersey).
We all have our crosses to bear.
May God bless her and provide peace to her family.
Rule of 3s applies:
3 minutes without air
3 hours without shelter (applies here)
3 days without water - and you can melt snow with your body heat for water
3 weeks without food. Food is the least critical element for short-term survival.
I a lot from Popular Science magazine even before I could drive. In February 1963, they ran a short article "How to Survive a Blizzard Using Your Car and Your Head."
Then, three years later, they expanded it to "How to Survive Anywhere" which had lots more tips on survival.
Of course, these days, most young people only know how to use their thumbs to send text messages, so these skills are a lost art (Special Ops veterans excepted).
This storm came with rain first then snow. Along with the wind, on those wheat stubble fields it whipped up to tens of feet high (not the snow depth, the blowing snow) visibility sucked and the wind was biting cold. Snow on top of that rain and you had slick conditions. Schools were still closed on Monday throughout a several counties in Kansas and Nebraska. Even as far north as Omaha and Lincoln.
Nobody went out. I have no idea why this woman went out in it. But I wager it was dark when she left home, got disoriented, and had no survival skills whatsoever even though she is on the plains in Kansas.
Thanks....easy to remember
Yeah, sounds logical. She likely grossly overestimated her abilities and/or had very poor judgment capacity. She was also likely feeling an unreasonable sense of responsibility to get to work. This combination proved deadly for her in a bad storm.
If the water is in my car, and car was in my garage, and I drove the car, with the heater on, and then I am stuck in the car, perhaps occasionally running the engine for heat if possible, the water will not be frozen, at least for quite a long time.
All of that and a full tank of gas! Maybe even a few extra gallons in a jug in the trunk!
I live in the area, the wind was blowing 50mph im sure she became disoriented quickly as soon as she left the car. She should have called for help IN the car, unless she was in a dead zone.
Another thing people dont realize, if you call for help in a blizzard they wont come. This happened in my county this weekend a women and two young children went in the ditch, cops refused to come , she posted it on a city wide fb page and other people came and got stuck. After 3 hours or so someone with a big truck was able to pull them all out.
Empty tuna cans and vigil iights.
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It never occurred to me that someone would go out with less than a full tank in the winter but yes, you are quite correct.
That has been the rule in my family since I was old enough to drive: When the car gets home, the tank is full, no matter what the fuel level was when you took it.
It discouraged frivolous use of the vehicles while ensuring nobody was low on fuel.
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