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- From: babs@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM (Babs Woods)
- Subject: Re: snow, snow, and more snow
- Message-ID: <C18Fv9.3u4@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM>
- Organization: Our Lady of Perpetual Mirth (Pacifica)
- References: <1993Jan5.171828.10957@sci34hub.sci.com> <waterman.726353853@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> <73110@cup.portal.com> <9301081751.15@rmkhome.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:52:18 GMT
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- In <9301081751.15@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
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- >In article <73110@cup.portal.com> lordSnooty@cup.portal.com (Andrew - Palfreyman) writes:
- >>The news here in Northern California has headlined on a mother and
- >>baby who spent 8 days in a snow cave in the Sierras while hubby went
- >>tramping about to look for help. They all survived, despite having had no food.
- >>
- >>Disgraceful behaviour. Totally neglecting the esteemed Donner Pass tradition
- >>for people marooned in winter in the Sierras, nobody ate anybody. Pfooee.
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-
- >Actually, they had a fairly steady supply of mother's milk.
-
- As I recall, the mother had the fruitcake (I think that's what they had,
- or some other baked-sweet), and she ate melted snow for water. Baby
- Clay had the breastmilk (he's 5 months old and there's not a hell of
- a lot else he could have eaten). Personally, I think he made out the
- best, since he didn't have to eat fruitcake and he didn't get
- frostbitten.
-
- -babs
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- --
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- "Excuse me, while I dance a little jig of despair."
- - hadley@ics.uci.edu (Ted Hadley)
-