http://www.geebobg.com/2006/11/09/die-weise-holle-vom-panther-hollow/ Americlecticintellectica Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:52:53 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.geebobg.com/2006/11/09/die-weise-holle-vom-panther-hollow/comment-page-1/#comment-117 gee bobg » Blog Archive » That could have been me Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:53:37 +0000 http://www.emphatic.com/bobg/wordpress/2006/11/09/die-weise-holle-vom-panther-hollow/#comment-117 [...] My own experience with being underdressed, underequipped, and disoriented in a snowy wilderness was orders of magnitude more brief and less perilous, but I think it taught me well enough not to strike out across open country under such circumstances. But how long could I resist the temptation to go for help when my family is freezing and starving before my very eyes? Superior, self-appointed survival experts all over the Internet are today pompously pronouncing that James should never have left the car. Easy for them to say. I think he showed more restraint than I would have under similar circumstances by staying with the car for as many days as he did. And after all, there are worse ways to die than by hypothermia (the end stages of which can be quite misleadingly pleasant — you get warm and drowsy — learned that in fifth grade from Tunnel Through Time by Lester Del Rey) while heroically trying to rescue your wife and children, as half the online world prays for you. [...] [...] My own experience with being underdressed, underequipped, and disoriented in a snowy wilderness was orders of magnitude more brief and less perilous, but I think it taught me well enough not to strike out across open country under such circumstances. But how long could I resist the temptation to go for help when my family is freezing and starving before my very eyes? Superior, self-appointed survival experts all over the Internet are today pompously pronouncing that James should never have left the car. Easy for them to say. I think he showed more restraint than I would have under similar circumstances by staying with the car for as many days as he did. And after all, there are worse ways to die than by hypothermia (the end stages of which can be quite misleadingly pleasant — you get warm and drowsy — learned that in fifth grade from Tunnel Through Time by Lester Del Rey) while heroically trying to rescue your wife and children, as half the online world prays for you. [...]

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