Student Stranded By Snow Survived On Candy Bars And Melted Snow For 9 Days

A college student survived for nine days on nothing but two candy bars and melted snow after her car got stuck. I would have died, I repeat I would have died. Click below to read the rest of the story.


Forest Service employees found Lauren Elizabeth Weinberg, 23, on Wednesday as they checked on gates in a remote area 45 miles southeast of Winslow, according to ABC News.

Weinberg was in good condition, albeit tired, cold, and hungry. She is recovering at Flagstaff Medical Center.

“I am so thankful to be alive and warm,” Weinberg said in a statement Thursday. “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.”

Weinberg had been stranded since Dec. 12, when her Toyota Corolla became stuck in 2 feet of snow on a dirt road.

The Arizona State University student managed to survive on the two candy bars and snow that she packed into a water bottle and melted on the roof of her car.

She was last seen leaving her mother’s Phoenix home on Dec. 11. A spokesman for the Coconino County sheriff told The Associated Press that Weinberg was driving with no particular destination when she became stuck on the forest road near a line of cliffs called the Mogolon Rim.

Weinberg is studying supply-chain management at ASU’s business school.

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