BLIZZARD '06: A DELIVERY THAT COULDN'T WAIT - A DELIVERY THE STORM COULDN'T STOP
A Delivery The Storm Couldn't Stop
El Paso County
Lauri Martin
El Paso County Search and Rescue put their two snow cats to good use saving stranded drivers. But one of the rescues involved a Southern Colorado woman who had a delivery not even the weather could delay.
Highway 94 was shut down, but don't tell that to one woman who was in labor. Search and Rescue sent in a snow cat to rescue the pregnant woman out at Schriever Air Force Base. The team was up against 40 mile an hour wind gusts and white out conditions.
The ambulance waited at Highway 94 and Mark Sheffel with chains on the tires since the conditions were simply too treacherous to travel any further. Six hours later, after Search and Rescue got the initial call, the pregnant woman finally made it to the ambulance. A Search and Rescue spokesperson said, "She's fine… a little anxious, but with weather, who wouldn't be?" Apparently, the baby was just as anxious.
No word just yet if the woman delivered her baby. Search and Rescue said the same type of situation happened a few years back. That woman named her baby, Tucker after the manufacturer of the snow cat that rescued her.
This story comes to us from KKTV Colorado Springs / Pueblo, Colorado.
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