WA State Ping...JFK
What is it about this place? People disappear here.
can you please ping the tech list
I truly hope they are all fine ...
prayers up
We've just had about five days of some of the worst winter weather we've seen in decades - maybe ever. They could be slid off the road somewhere. It just cleared up today, maybe someone will find them if that is the case.
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This is horrible. Praying for all concerned.
(I love Cnet.com. Can't imagine what his cohorts are going through.)
Missing for this long bodes ill for them all. Bad weather on top of it adds more hopelessness to the mix. It would be a real miracle if they are not dead.
Prayers.
You are not getting this on the news folks, but between the rain and the snow and cold that has hit us this month, this state is in bad shape outside of the cities.
My business partner has been without water, power, cable, phone for the last six days. In Stanwood, along the rural roads, it looks like the military came in and bombed the place. None of the powerlines made it. Six days later, and there are conductors littered everywhere.
Property owners are picking them up and moving them because they don't have a choice at this point. Along some of these routes, it looks like black snakes on the road.
A guy I graduated with who lives in Poulsbo was driving home the same night (Nov 25th) out of Neah Bay. His 4WD hit a patch of black ice on a turn and put the car down a steep embankment, putting the car into a wide, swollen creek. He and his family were able to get the windows down before the power was lost and spent some quality time on the roof of the car. He managed to jump into the creek, grabbed a fallen tree, pull himself up to the other bank, flag down a car, and then get EMS to rope traverse the family off the car.
Mt Rainier State Park is virtually destroyed. There are new creeks where they didn't exist before, entire sections of river bank have been established, bridges wiped out, etc.
These guys at the papers and stations need to get in a car and go for a spin.
I have a powerpoint of the Mt. Rainer damage, and its breathtaking. You can hit me privately if you want a copy.
Can't they trace them with a cell phone signal? Surely the family had at least one cell with them. I pray for them.
Bay City News Wire
SAN FRANCISCO FAMILY VANISHES DURING ROAD TRIP
11/30/06 8:20 PST
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN)
Police tonight are looking for information in the case of a San Francisco family of four who are missing after setting out on a road trip last week.
San Francisco police say James and Kati Kim and their daughters Penelope, 4, and Sabine, 7 months, left to drive to Seattle on Friday, Nov. 24. They made it to Portland the following morning, then vanished.
The family was expected to return to San Francisco on Monday.
Police say both James and Kati Kim failed to show up for their appointments on Tuesday, and co-workers are worried for the family's safety.
Investigators say the Kims are known to keep in touch with their friends and colleagues daily by phone or e-mail.
The Kims were driving a 2005 silver Saab station wagon with personalized California plates that read "DOESF."
James Kim is described as a 35-year-old Asian man, 5 feet 9 inches tall and 150 pounds with brown eyes and black hair. Kati Kim is described as a 30-year-old white woman with brown hair and hazel eyes. She is 5 feet 7 inches tall and 125 pounds.
Anyone with information about the Kims is urged to call Inspector Angela Martin with the San Francisco Police Department's missing persons unit at (415) 558-5508. After hours, callers can contact the Police Department's operation center at (415) 553-1071.
Photos of the Kim family can be found on the Police Department's Web site at http://www.sfgov.org/police.
A little more detail from CBS5 in SF:
http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_334230019.html
[snip]
" ... The family was expected at a bed-and-breakfast in Gold Beach, Ore. on Saturday, Nov. 25. The hotel said Kim called three times to report delays due to bad weather.
They made it to Portland the following morning, then vanished.
The family was expected to return to San Francisco on Monday.
Police say both James and Kati Kim failed to show up for their appointments on Tuesday, and co-workers at CNET are worried for the family's safety.
Investigators say the Kims are known to keep in touch with their friends and colleagues daily by phone or e-mail. ..."
[snip]
As tech savvy as he seems to be, shouldn't there be some way he could communicate for help?
This is the 2nd weird missing Asian guy with a white wife and small child out of SF story that I know of. There was another unsolved one about a year ago too.
The wife and child did not go missing, but he did. They've never found him.
Hmmm.
I wonder what he really knows about this. I bet the husband is involved somehow.