Posted on 07/24/2013 6:20:07 PM PDT by redreno
This lake is called the Atlantic ocean
Wow, that just amazes me! Is that what she drove off of? I have never driven in water or really wet weather...just Texas heat and miserable Michigan winters so have no knowledge wherefore-of I speak...it still seems ridiculous that could have even happened by accident. Have never been anywhere near that close to a water drop off like that.....seems almost criminal for it not to be lit up like a Sunday Christmas tree with fog horns and whatever else. Is that a lawsuit waiting to happen or is that legal to be like that?
Thanks for setting me straight politely!
Boy, he sure did. I think they had a date with destiny that night....very sad.
yes, you are much kinder and wiser than I am some days...times.
Thanks.
Good grief! Of all the ways to die, I don’t want it to be from stupidity...mine or others.
Btw, I read online that she and her husband were organic farmers. I personally don’t have anything against them and even recently started juicing with organic vegetables (body sure does love it when you give it what it was made to have!!!) but I would count them as highly likely Obama voters....or as the Duck Dynasty Dad calls em...yuppies. Yuppie pretend wanna be farmers....just my own personal opinion.
Maybe because I have had such severe and crippling anxiety all my life it makes me hype-aware and hypervigilant to the point no person would ever be. Rarely have I gone blithely thru life oblivious to danger and to His credit, the good Lord, who has saved my bacon many times over the years...why I am still not sure.
The FoxNews article states that they called 9-11 while IN the vehicle AS it was filling with water.
Call me crazy, but if I were in a similar situation, my first response would be to GET OUT OF THE SINKING VAN first, THEN call 9-11 afterwards. Yeesh.
Did these women not have the slightest bit of survival instinct? Nope...no effort to save your own skin - call 9-11 instead and wait for them to rescue you. Flat out stupid.
Too bad they didn’t have a shotgun to fire into the air.
lol...the ‘Biden Method’ is applicable in so many real-life situations! Warding off Sequesters trying to break into you house, job hunting in the hood, drowning in a lake...
“Sounds like something a Kennedy would do.”
Sounds like something a Kennedy would do ... to someone else.
That was the sad part to me. They drove into the ocean. Yes, there are waves, but it probably didn’t drop to 20 feet or anything. They probably just got stuck in the sand at the end of the boat ramp.
But they probably didn’t understand either to roll down their windows, or to wait for the pressure to equalize so they could open their door. (Maybe their car shorted out and they couldn’t open their windows). SO they likely drowned before they could open the doors. it is hard to open a car door if there already is water outside, and not yet inside.
So it makes sense that they would call 911. But the 911 operator should have been able to explain exactly what to do — unbuckle your belt, take deep breaths, put your one hand on the door latch and pull on it, and then keep pushing until the door gives way.
With these simple instructions, this was an easily survivable error. They didn’t drive off a bridge and flip their car or anything.
BTW, we just had a woman do that nearby, on the Bay Bridge in Maryland. She managed to drive her car off the bridge, and it crashed near the shore upside down. She managed to keep her cool, wait for pressure to equalize, open the door, and swim out to safety. She said God spoke to her and told her what to do.
A shotgun could be useful to blow the window, so the pressure equalizes and you can open the door (I mean, I would swim out the window, but some people can’t or don’t think of it).
I’m still waiting until I have an opportunity to try the trick of pulling the spare tire and using it for an emergency oxygen supply......
just learned about this. I spent wed night in Bangor,90 mi from Roque Bluffs. BUT I live in RB and the site of the turnarounddontdrown point is where I walk and bike to 3 mi from home. I left town early wed not knowing what had happened the night before. It is sad and I am sad to say I hope my town of 200 plus home owners is not sued.
Just imagine the conversation prior.
“At least I didn’t get us lost on the trail.
Oh shut up and drive!”
Yes, that’s the boat launch.
**The road ends in a remote boat landing about a mile away from the main parking area for the park. There is a sign near the ramp saying the pavement ends, but it is partially obscured by branches. There are no homes or businesses in the area, and none of the fishing boats were occupied, Smith said.**
“It’s pitch black — dark as a pocket and there’d be nobody there at that time of night and in that weather,” Smith said.
I happen to use public boat launches every day...up and down the New England coast, putting in kayaks. FWIW, I’m such a worry-wart about safety, like my car rolling into the drink, I park up against a curbing to unload, if there is one, just in case.
This is such a strange, weird occurrence. Heaven rest their souls.
**Smith said other people have accidentally driven into the ocean at that spot, although never with such tragic results. In those cases, the cars floated for a period of time before sinking, which could explain why the van was found so far from shore, he said. Also, the tide was coming in fast — low tide was at 6 p.m. — which would have increased the distance from shore to the van.**
Cars will float...for a while. You sound as if these women should have acted like James Bond or Bruce Willis...frankly, I think they were tired and disoriented after their being lost ordeal. That and the fog and rain added to the *perfect storm* of their demise.
As Horatio Nelson said, death is a debt we must all pay.
Yikes, what is that?
I bet they couldn’t open the doors or windows because the electric locks and window openers probably shorted out.
What horror...the only way out was to bust the windows, they probably didn’t have a hammer in the car, and by the time they would have gone out they’d be floating in the ocean, drifting in the dark away from the boat ramp.
What horror. I hope they’re at peace now.
Ed
Wow, I just learned a whole lotta sumthin’!!
Thanks, Charles.
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