One fortunate lady
By all accounts, she shouldn’t have survived:
After wandering through a snowstorm and sub-zero temperatures for nearly three days, a 55-year-old Ancaster woman was found alive, saved by the very snow that buried her.
Donna Molnar went missing on Friday afternoon after she went for a walk in rural Ancaster, near Hamilton. She was familiar with the area, but police believe she became disoriented in the heavy snow. “I’ve done many, many searches and that woman should not be alive,” said Dave Walker.
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Hamilton police Chief Brian Mullan said Ms. Molnar appeared to be encased in snow.
“That’s what we think played a major role in her retaining her own body heat and surviving for two-and-a-half days, really in some of the more extreme weather that we’ve seen this year,” he said.
Ms. Molnar is suffering from hypothermia and severe frostbite and is recovering in the intensive care unit at Hamilton General Hospital. Her husband, Dave, and son Matthew are at her bedside.
Call it a bit of a Christmas miracle; most who become lost in snowstorms, and thus go missing, are not subsequently found alive.
