Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Last night I became unconscious but then recovered in the morning. It was a miracle!

I know that people say they get strength from their faith and I know that most of them believe it. But this kind of thing still bugs the crap out of me.

Searchers had combed the brutal backcountry of rural Ontario for the housewife from the city of Hamilton, who had left her home three days earlier in the middle of a blizzard to grocery shop.

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There she was, there was Donna, her face was almost totally covered except for one eye staring back at me!" he said. "That was, 'Wow!' There was a thousand thoughts going through my head. It was over the top."

With one ungloved hand near her neck, Molnar, 55, mumbled and tried to scream as Lau yelled to other rescuers. Dressed in a leather coat, sweater, slacks and winter boots, Molnar was carefully extracted from a 3-foot-deep mound of snow that had apparently helped to insulate her.
Note that last sentence. Snow mound helped to insulate her. That's the whole idea behind an Igloo, which is certainly not such an unusual thing. The policeman gets it exactly right.
"I think the snow must have worked to trap her body heat, and that's what really saved her," Cox said. "This really speaks to what's possible."
But of course, others have to believe it was divine intervention that saved her.
"My wife, you know, doesn't pump iron. She is strong physically and spiritually," he said. "When people say to me how do I explain how she survived, I said I believe God reached down and cradled her until the rescuers could find her, because there's no rational explanation."
Uh, yes, there is a rational explanation. Just read this very article!! Geez!

And, frankly, if it was divine intervention God did a piss-poor job once again.
In addition to hypothermia, Donna Molnar is being treated for severe frostbite, and her recovery will take months.
That's God all right; such an incompetent.

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