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Woman locates husband buried in an avalanche by sending Find My iPhone location to rescue team
I started to have *** conversation with, with God, and I started to say, Heavenly Father, I’m in *** bad way. Buried under feet of snow, Michael Harris couldn’t move. You feel like you’re encased in cement, so this arm was stuck, these legs were stuck. I could move this hand *** little bit, but I had no movement in my body. He was trapped and running out of time. My mind shifted very quickly from that to. Does anyone know that I’m here and how am I going to survive? Someone did. I started freaking out. His wife Penny, and my texts got more intense and then I started calling. She could see where he was. He was still there and I could see he was on the mountain. Using the find my feature on her iPhone, she showed ski patrol where he was. They were able to take my location and get *** snapshot of it and pinpoint pretty much where he was. Ski patrol and an avalanche rescue dog headed into Big Chief Bow. As they dug me out, they were astonished to find that I had that I was. I was conscious. By then, Michael had been buried for 4 hours. This magic period of getting recovered is 15 to 30 minutes, and so I’m having this unbelievable, he was buried for 4 hours. And I’m thinking to myself, wow, I. The math doesn’t add up. When rescuers found him, his body temperature was in the 70s. He was extremely hypothermic. The thing that I was hoping is that I’d, I’d get to see her and my 4 kids one more time. They were the only thing I thought about. At the same time, Penny was trying to get to him because I was literally praying, screaming out loud. Not now. Now is not the time. I need him. We need him. The avalanche left him with *** broken leg and an injury that required surgery. So I got *** bone graft. I got 7 screws, and I’ve got *** plate. The surgery team were the ones that said, You’re our avalanche man. You’re our miracle. I’m Miracle Mike the Avalanche man if you want the full title.
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Woman locates husband buried in an avalanche by sending Find My iPhone location to rescue team
A skier trapped in an avalanche in Washington state was rescued after technology helped crews locate him.Michael Harris was trapped in the snow for four hours after an avalanche. “You feel like you’re encased in cement,” Harris told KING-TV. “This arm was stuck, these legs were stuck, I could move this hand a little bit, but I had no movement in my body.”As time passed, his thoughts became more desperate.”My mind shifted really quickly to, does anyone know that I’m here, and am I going to survive?” he said. Luckily, Penny Harris, his wife, did figure out where he was, and she used the Find My iPhone feature to show ski patrol. He was still conscious when he was dug out of the snow about four hours later. His body temperature was in the 70s, and he was extremely hypothermic, Michael Harris said. Learn more about this story in the video above.PHNjcmlwdCB0eXBlPSJ0ZXh0L2phdmFzY3JpcHQiPiFmdW5jdGlvbigpeyJ1c2Ugc3RyaWN0Ijt3aW5kb3cuYWRkRXZlbnRMaXN0ZW5lcigibWVzc2FnZSIsKGZ1bmN0aW9uKGUpe2lmKHZvaWQgMCE9PWUuZGF0YVsiZGF0YXdyYXBwZXItaGVpZ2h0Il0pe3ZhciB0PWRvY3VtZW50LnF1ZXJ5U2VsZWN0b3JBbGwoImlmcmFtZSIpO2Zvcih2YXIgYSBpbiBlLmRhdGFbImRhdGF3cmFwcGVyLWhlaWdodCJdKWZvcih2YXIgcj0wO3I8dC5sZW5ndGg7cisrKXtpZih0W3JdLmNvbnRlbnRXaW5kb3c9PT1lLnNvdXJjZSl0W3JdLnN0eWxlLmhlaWdodD1lLmRhdGFbImRhdGF3cmFwcGVyLWhlaWdodCJdW2FdKyJweCJ9fX0pKX0oKTs8L3NjcmlwdD4=
A skier trapped in an avalanche in Washington state was rescued after technology helped crews locate him.
Michael Harris was trapped in the snow for four hours after an avalanche.
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“You feel like you’re encased in cement,” Harris told KING-TV. “This arm was stuck, these legs were stuck, I could move this hand a little bit, but I had no movement in my body.”
As time passed, his thoughts became more desperate.
“My mind shifted really quickly to, does anyone know that I’m here, and am I going to survive?” he said.
Luckily, Penny Harris, his wife, did figure out where he was, and she used the Find My iPhone feature to show ski patrol.
He was still conscious when he was dug out of the snow about four hours later. His body temperature was in the 70s, and he was extremely hypothermic, Michael Harris said.
Learn more about this story in the video above.
