Posted on 07/24/2013 6:20:07 PM PDT by redreno
ROQUE BLUFFS, Maine (AP) — A pregnant Maine woman and her friend visiting from Pennsylvania got lost hiking and were rescued but died later that evening, authorities said, when they accidentally drove their car into the ocean in the nighttime fog.
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Seems as if it really was predestined and they didn’t escape the second time...how many people escape near death more than twice in a day? Still very sad and I am sorry for my earlier attitude.
The grim reaper or death from the Ingmar Bergman movie the Seventh Seal (1957). Played by Bengt Ekerot.
This story made me think about my harrowing experience with fog. It didn't even involve the ocean.
We were coming home from a day of skiing in the Green Mountains [Vermont] and we were coming down a mountain highway and got socked in with fog. I surmise the air temp had warmed and hit the cooler air in the valley. You couldn't see a foot in front of you. Fortunately my friend was with me, and was able to walk the line in the road and direct me. If I say we crawled. We crawled. With a pedestrian walking me, we could also *hear* any other vehicles that might be approaching from either direction.
I don't recall how long it took us to get below the fog and home safely, but it seemed like forever.
I'm sure pilots have scary stories, as well as fishermen. And the newer technologies to help us, instead of relying on experience and the seat of your pants.
Every so often fog related pile-ups kill the unsuspecting...
Man, he is a bit scary but I guess that is the point, huh?
Thanks.
I have driven in fog in MI and TX, but never on unfamiliar roads and never very thick fog. What you describe is very scary but you handled properly. I think perhaps I would have pulled over and sat it out but I have the luxury of doing that.
My problem is those snow banks in MI...landed in a few more than one....but the Lord keeps pulling me out and setting me back on the road to go again another day.
Thanks for your graciousness.
P.S. I am not an adventurous driver though...I gotta go where I gotta go and then I gotta come home...period. I don’t explore or get winding around places I don’t know....not to say I have not gotten lost more than a few times just like these girls but never had a tragic result.
Think I may have to watch this...the clip on youtube is very interesting...the chess game.
Cool, thanks for the tip and explanation.
Deep culverts [to accommodate the snow-melt off the mountain] lined both sides of the road, so there was no place or side roads to pull off-of. We wished!
Stay-safe out there!
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