In the Blizzard of '93, I got stranded at a Cloudland Canyon State Park (on top of Lookout Mtn) cabin with 3/4 of my family and 3/4 of friend's family - we listened on the ranger's scanner to the search party try to get in to a jeep full of teenagers (about 8 of them in one Heep) 5 miles up a Jeep trail in northwest GA on top of John Jones Mtn one ridgeline to the SE - pine tress down like Pic-up-Stiks across the road from the 60mph winds and 2'snow/ice loads. Two of the party started trying to walk out when the jeep ran out of gas to run the heater and the CB - had CB wired to a relay that only worked with the engine running - some kind of electric fan relay with an ignition sense circuit - and the two walkers were found dead of hypothermia about 1 mile from the jeep 2 days later when the cutting/dozer crew got in that far, and the kids who stayed in the heep were fine when they got to them the next day - hungry, cold, and VERY tired of being stuffed in the jeep with somebody's halitosis and left foot in their face, but alive... the two who tried to walk out were football linemen types... "I fear nothing but a cold wind".


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