Washington, Dec 23 (ANI): An Arizona student was stranded in snow for 10 days after her car got stuck in a blizzard.
Lauren Weinberg, 23, survived on two candy bars and melted snow for water outside a forest gate near a line of cliffs with no one around for miles.
The 23-year-old sat in the car without a heavy coat or blanket for nearly a week and a half as another snowstorm dumped more than two feet of snow around her, ABC news reported.
"She did not have a lot in the way of provisions, she did not have a lot in the way of warm clothing," police said.
"She had a cell phone with her. She told us that she couldn't use it because the battery was dead, and then I guess at some point because of the cold it became completely disabled," they stated.
Weinberg was last seen leaving her mother's house in Phoenix on the night of Dec 11. She drove four hours toward Arizona's Mogollon Rim when a gate impeded her from travelling any farther. In her attempt to turn her car around, she got stuck.
"They took her out on a snowmobile. She was taken to a waiting deputy to a point where you could get a four-wheel drive vehicle and then she was transported from there," Coconino County sheriff's spokesman Gerry Blair said.
Weinberg, an undergraduate student who is studying supply chain management, has thanked her rescuers.
"I am so thankful to be alive and warm," she said.
"Thank you everyone for your thoughts and prayers, because they worked. There were times I was afraid but mostly I had faith I would be found," she added. (ANI)
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