Posted on 05/10/2023 1:57:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A missing 8-year-old boy who had survived for two days in a Michigan state park by eating snow was found sheltering under a log on Monday, state police announced.
Nante Niemi went missing Saturday afternoon while gathering firewood for his family's campsite in northwest Michigan's Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, setting off a sprawling search and rescue effort to find the Wisconsin boy, Michigan State Police said in a release.
More than 150 state and local police personnel scoured the remote and hilly terrain by foot and by air and water, the release said, noting that several roads are still impassable due to deep snow.
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That poor child. I know he was scared, but he did well managing on his own for two days. Although snow might not have been the best thing to eat, in small quantities and if it didn’t get too cold at night, it was the right thing to do to stay hydrated, considering he had nothing else.
Survived for 2 days in spite of eating snow.
“To survive, Niemi had “covered up with branches and leaves for warmth and also blanketed the log he was under. He didn’t have any food but ate clean snow for hydration,” police said in the tweet.”
Smart kid.
Before long we’ll all be eating snow and bugs.
“by eating snow “
Video shows no snow and searchers in Shortsleeves?
Yeah, because global warming...(both)
But snow is white.
Should have been eating coal.
Snow in the shade lasts a while, active searchers on days in the 60s get warm.
Way down where the Huskies go, don’t you eat that yellow snow. - Frank Zappa
Future Seal in the making?.
“Seat 38 on Fido3, ice pick in the forehead.”
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