Thread: CA: Woman rescued from icebound freeway

Woman rescued from icebound freeway

She suffers hypothermia after being stranded with her boyfriend in a surprise snowstorm along Interstate 8 east of San Diego.
From the Associated Press
February 16, 2008


SAN DIEGO -- A rescue helicopter airlifted a woman from an icebound freeway Friday after a surprise snowstorm left her with severe hypothermia.

The storm lashed San Diego County with rain and snow, stranding as many as 500 motorists on a mountain freeway and pouring mud down onto another roadway but causing no major damage.

The Border Patrol said the 21-year-old woman was found with her boyfriend about 10 a.m. along Interstate 8 near the Pine Valley Bridge, about 40 miles east of San Diego. Agents believe she may have been traveling with a group of migrants and had been left behind, said spokesman Mark Endicott.

She was conscious but not alert enough to be interviewed before she was taken to Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego, where she was listed as stable, he said. The man, 30, was taken to an immigration detention facility.

Earlier in the morning, two other men suspected of being illegal immigrants from Mexico were found in a snowy canyon just north of the border. They were located about 4 a.m., and one was taken to a hospital suffering from hypothermia, Endicott said.

A 27-mile stretch of Interstate 8, which runs through the mountains in the eastern county and is a main artery from California into Arizona, was reopened before dawn following a 12-hour shutdown.

The California Highway Patrol was escorting cars through the pass, although motorcycles still were not allowed because of black ice on the road.

The freeway was closed shortly after 4 p.m. Thursday when blowing snow and ice made the roadway impassable.

"It was just a big dump of snow, real fast," accompanied by high winds, said CHP Officer Jim Bettencourt.

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Guess Calderone better get busy with his "How to Drive in Snow" alien assistance comic book.

The Border Patrol said the 21-year-old woman was found with her boyfriend about 10 a.m. along Interstate 8 near the Pine Valley Bridge, about 40 miles east of San Diego. Agents believe she may have been traveling with a group of migrants and had been left behind, said spokesman Mark Endicott.

Apparently another example of a group "of good people who just want to work" abandoning people to die while illegally entering the U.S.A.

Pro-immigration groups cite that over 200 people die each year attempting to cross the border as one reason for open borders. If the truth be known, how many of these deaths occur due to 'being abandoned and left behind' by groups illegally crossing the border?

I remember the heros from 9/11 who risked their own lives helping others escape --like the man at the WTC who carried a wheelchair-bound woman down something like 36 flights of stairs and many other stories of heros that day from ordinary citizens to police and firemen. Military personnel risk their lives rescuing fallen soldiers. Daily Americans risk their lives saving others.

Abandonment is not an American value.

Pro immigration groups ignore that 26 Americans die each day as the result of illegal immigration.

The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
Winston Churchill

This storm was a surprise and came in very quickly with over four hundered vehicles stranded on the freeway.
I am sure other people will be found at later dates and not as lucky as these two.