Surviving The Search

“Bowie Student Trapped 8 Days Details Pain, Survival Tactics

By Avis Thomas-Lester
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 11, 2007; A01

As Julian McCormick recalls it, he lay in and out of consciousness for eight days and seven nights, hot, sticky and bloody with not a clue as to what day it was or how he ended up trapped in his overturned car at the bottom of a steep embankment in Prince George's County.

To survive, he ate a fish he caught with his hands and used his high-top sneaker to drink water from the creek, the 18-year-old Bowie State University student told his parents.

When he finally was able to muster the strength, he cut his seat belt using a small knife he had in his car, forced his door open and then dragged himself by his elbows, his body racked with pain, 30 feet up to the shoulder of the road hoping that someone would see him and rescue him. Someone did.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/10/AR2007091002492_pf.html

He was a mile from his home, on his expected path. Searchers..........?
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“Flor Orellana-Diaz, called his cellphone 127 times.”