The SF Chronicle has more details about the rescue of the family of James Kim, a CNet editor who has been missing in remote Oregon for 10 days. The stranded family survived by burning their car's tires for warmth; Kati Kim kept her two young daughters from starving by breastfeeding them. The family displayed incredible ingenuity, down to fashioning a signal from an umbrella topped with reflective striping. James Kim remains missing, and is the subject of an intensive search.
They ran the heater in their station wagon until the car was out of gas, then burned all the tires in a desperate attempt to keep warm. When the food ran out, Kati Kim breastfed her two young daughters to keep them alive.
Hope was running low for the Kim family nine days after they became stranded in the snowy mountains of southwestern Oregon while making their way toward home in San Francisco. Then, at 1:45 p.m. Monday, Kim spotted a helicopter her family had hired to help in the search. She waved an umbrella on which she had taped reflective striping, and soon she and the girls were saved.
(Thanks, Damien!)
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