Posted on 02/27/2023 4:30:31 PM PST by grundle
Two missing women were found safe after spending four nights in their car in the frigid Maine woods, officials say.
Game wardens said they rescued Kimberly Pushard, 51, and Angela Bussell, 50, around 4 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 26, four days after the women were last seen. The women were in Pushard’s Jeep Compass near Nicatous Lake in Hancock County.
Pushard and Bussell were first reported missing Wednesday, Feb. 22, Topsham Police Chief Marc Hagan said in a news conference Friday, Feb. 24, that was shared by WCSH.
The pair left home on Tuesday to go to the Maine Mall in South Portland to go bowling, their families said, according to Hagan. Both women have intellectual disabilities, he said.
Family members said Pushard and Bussell called them later on Tuesday asking for directions home because they had ended up in Massachusetts, Hagan said during the news conference. The women started driving home and were spotted in Exeter, New Hampshire, where they had several interactions with police and other law enforcement officers.
Hagan said officials who saw the women in New Hampshire offered them directions home, but at the time the women did not appear to be distressed or anxious. The pair were last seen on Wednesday morning in Springfield, Maine.
They stopped at a gas station in Springfield around 10 a.m., according to security footage, the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife said in a news release. More video footage showed Pushard’s Jeep outside a bargain store in Lincoln, Maine, around 10:30 a.m. and later on Route 155 traveling south.
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God was certainly watching over these two ladies. Very lucky to be alive, let us give thanks for this outcome!
Yeah that is a good idea. An Apple airtag may even do the trick.
Yeah, I have all the essentials in my truck for such an eventuality.
Stay in the car ....maybe bank it with snow. Just being Mainiacs probably helped. We had a high-profile Asian techie from SF(?) follow his GPS past a barrier on a logging road. Ended up dying in the woods. His wife and kid were found alive at the car.
At very least, they are lucky the night cold didn’t get to them. No doubt, their families were going nuts, not knowing anything for that long. Aren’t there Moose and Bears in Maine?
When I travel I sleep behind the wheel anyway, even in super cold and snow, so I want to be comfortable, which of course means that mere survival isn’t even a question.
I’m happy these poor souls were found alive, but neither one of these individuals should have a driver’s license.
I love that they got their shopping done.
Priorities!
“..Aren’t there Moose and Bears in Maine?...”
Yeah...lots of em, but they’re not a problem. Black bears hibernate in winter and shy away from people when they’re not....unless a person happens to get between a mama bear and her cubs, of course. There’s been rumors of other critters in that area, but it’s the frigid temperatures that will most likely do a person in this time of year. Hypothermia will set in fast if one isn’t prepared.
They were found near where I live. The gas station owner is a close friend and client. Those ladies are not mentally competent enough to have a driver’s license. Maine’s foolish liberal government won’t revoke their drivers license, though.
I worked in Wyoming years ago in the oilfield. In the winter we would always have a few deaths due to exposure. A person’s car would break down and they were just a few miles from town but on a non state road normally gravel and little to no traffic. They would try to walk out and died of hypothermia. Those that lived stayed with their vehicle.
I traveled many miles off state highways when in the oilfield. I carried food, water, blankets and a sleeping bag. I never needed to use them for such. I would have survived if needed. If you want to survive, STAY IN YOUR CAR!
“And when it randomly burst into flames, it would've kept them toasty warm while stranded in the Maine woods!”
Hey who knows the fire may had drawn the attention of search crews and they could have been located sooner! But then they would of most likely died in the resulting forest fire, but they wouldn't have died of Covid
Ankle bracelets equipped with GPS.
Regards,
I have an extended cab pickup truck, so when I sleep in my truck on trips I move over to the passenger seat and push the seat back as far as it goes, and recline it as low as it goes.
Wool clothes and wool blankets and I’m pretty toasty.
I sleep behind the wheel in a 1980s army oversize mummy bag with the zipper down the middle, with a sheet or blankets inside of it depending on the situation.
The middle zipper makes it easy to stay warm and read or play music and think, I sleep at the wheel and when refreshed I turn the key and go, after getting in 2 hours of driving I stop and make coffee and cook some breakfast.
I’m a hard-charging driver and prefer to drive at night, so while I drive during the day, I also drive as long as I can at night which leads to little sleep, there is never a time when I feel like spending money to grab a few hours in a motel, and besides, I like to sleep in interesting places, like snowy mountain passes or at Mt. Rushmore if I am in that region, which I will go out of my way to find.
When I’m out and about the country, I’m looking for adventure, and getting lost in the wind is a goal, but even going from A to B in a hurried Interstate Highway cross-country drive I still just pull onto a side road to sleep.
For me, the car is a form of camping and I really enjoy the independence of being self-contained and alone with no one knowing where I am, or what I’m doing, seeing new areas, seeing only strangers, using laundrymats when needed.
I think it is the closest I can get to my years of drifting around by hitchhiking when casual work was easy to find and going to a bar just about guaranteed a girl and a place to shower for a few days and free beers from the pool table or arm-wrestling.
The pre-immigration America was a very interesting place and easy to move around in, if you want a sense of the pre-immigration America, read “A Walk Across America” by Peter Jenkins.
I read Jenkins’ book almost forty years ago. He started his trek with his dog, Cooper Half Malamute. who, unfortunately, came to an untimely end.
I used to be an avid hiker and backpacker, and I still enjoy walking and doing some trekking. But the years have caught up to me.
Many years ago I did a “bucket list” trip with some old home friends. We backpacked the Shenandoah section of the Appalachian Trail. It was worth all the blisters and cramps and soreness.
I just ordered the book to read again, I also read his second one and just found out about his third one.
I’ve done 10 and 11 day solo backpacks and was trying to get gear ready for the PCT during the 1980s but never got everything together to take the 6-month commitment.
“I just ordered the book to read again, I also read his second one and just found out about his third one.”
I read his second one, but it got to be preachy (he became a minister or something).
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