Eight months pregnant and freezing, 23-year-old Lindsey Black huddled in the back seat of her car and watched a small rock chip on her windshield splinter across the whole window under the weight of several feet of drifting snow.
“That’s when I thought I would die for sure %26#151; buried alive,” Black said on Thursday, the day after she was stranded at the side of the road in the winter storm that pounded parts of northern Utah.
Hours earlier, Black had been teaching her sixth-grade class at Renaissance Academy Charter School in Lehi, where her students had enjoyed mostly sunny recesses all day. At 3:25 p.m., she was well on her way home going west on state Route 92.
“Then like a bomb, it went off,” she said. “I couldn’t see two inches in front of my windshield.”
She pushed on, encouraged by the glow of the red taillights of the car ahead of her.
When the guiding red lights slipped out of sight, she pulled over to wait it out for a few minutes. It was comfortable, but then minutes turned into hours. Her windshield wipers froze up and light dimmed.
The sun hadn’t set, but stiff ground winds blew layers of snow up past her car windows, smothering her in its dark blue shadow.
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