By Peter Kenter
A Houston woman was found after spending five days stranded in her car, stuck in a pool of wastewater as she survived on M&Ms, peanut butter and bottled water.
Houston’s KHOU-TV
reports that Lynn Keesler was driving a rental car through Burley, Idaho and couldn’t locate her hotel. Cassia County Undersheriff George Warrell says the woman received directions from a police officer, but she mistakenly headed into a field, where her car became trapped in a drainage pond.
The driver honked her horn and flashed her lights until the car’s battery gave out. Believing the safest course of action was to stay with the vehicle, Keesler remained inside for the next five days, surviving on snacks.
A rain storm activated pumps that began filling the drainage pond. That convinced Keesler to leave the car as water threatened to fill the passenger compartment.
The driver made her way to a nearby farmhouse, where residents called police and ambulance services.
Keesler refused assistance, telling emergency responders that she only wanted a warm bed and a bath.
