Huddled and shivering from the cold, David Higgins, his wife Yvonne, and their 5-year-old daughter, Hannah, stayed burried for almost two days in the deep snow that surrounded their sport utility vehicle.
The family had been headed for a pre-Christmas skiing vacation at Angel Fire resort in New Mexico on Monday, December 19, when their 2003 GMC Yukon got stuck in a blizzard on U. S. Highway 412 about 30 miles outside the town of Clyaton.
David and his wife used their cellphones to call family members and 911. They gave Mile Marker 52 as their location but as it turns out, they were just about halfway between markers 51 and 52.
Fortunately, as they awaited rescuers, the family had three flashlights in the car, along with two cases of water, cereal, two loaves of bread, sandwich meat, peanut butter and jelly, a gallon of milk, two sleeping bags, two pillows and their ski gear.
The parents used DVD's and games to distract their daughter the best they could.
On Wednesday, rescuers using poles to search the snow struck the top of the Yukon. They dug down to the driver's side window, broke it with an ax, and pulled the family out through a 4-foot snow tunnel to the surface.
All three are recovering in Raton at the Miners Colfax Medical Center. They hope to make it back home to the Houston area in time for Christmas.
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