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Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Stranded Oregon woman drank
water from moss after crash
BRIEFLY
Eugene’s bait-
bike program
hooks thieves
EUGENE (AP) — The
Eugene Police Depart-
ment’s “bait bike” program
has led to some recent
arrests, but officials say the
goal of the program is to
plant a seed of doubt in the
minds of would-be thieves.
Sgt. Wayne Dorman
says police leave the bait
bikes equipped with track-
ing technology in high-
crime areas or places
where people are likely to
leave their bicycles. Police
receive an alert when a
bike gets moved.
One bait bike was
taken twice one night
last week. A 22-year-old
man was arrested for tak-
ing the bike where police
initially planted it. Offi-
cers then leaned the bike
against a bike rack at the
public library, and it was
allegedly snagged by a
42-year-old man.
Eugene police statis-
tics show the number of
reported bike thefts is
down significantly from
2015, but it’s unknown if
bait bikes have played a
role in the drop.
By MICHAEL BALSAMO
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — An
Oregon woman who was
badly injured and stranded
for a week after her Jeep
plunged 250 feet over a cliff
into the ocean near Big Sur in
California says she survived
by drinking fresh water drip-
ping from moss until she was
rescued by a couple hiking
along the beach.
From her hospital bed,
23-year-old Angela Hernan-
dez posted a detailed account
Sunday night on Facebook of
her survival after the crash.
The Portland woman said
she spent each day walking
the isolated stretch of beach,
searching for help, and was
unable to make her way back
up to the highway.
She said she had a brain
hemorrhage, collapsed lung,
broken ribs and collarbones,
and severe sunburn.
“For her to survive for
seven days on the coast with
waves crashing over you at
times, with injuries that she
had, is amazing,” Monterey
County Sheriff Steve Bernal
said. “She was a fighter. She
had the will to survive and I
think most people in that sit-
uation probably wouldn’t
have lasted that long.”
Hernandez had been driv-
ing to her sister’s home in
Lancaster, near Los Angeles,
on July 6 when a small ani-
mal crossed in front of her,
causing her to swerve and
lose control of her car, she
wrote.
“The only thing I really
remember after that was
waking up. I was still in my
car and I could feel water ris-
ing over my knees. My head
hurt and when I touched it, I
found blood on my hands.”
She said she broke a win-
dow of her car, jumped into
the ocean and swam ashore.
She fell asleep on the beach
and realized what had hap-
pened after she woke up.
Her shoulders, hips,
back and thighs were radi-
ating pain and all she could
see was the cliff, rocks and
ocean.
Monterey County Sheriff’s Office via AP
In this Friday photo posted on the Monterey County, Calif., Sheriff’s Office Twitter
feed, authorities tend to Angela Hernandez, foreground center, after she was res-
cued, in Morro Bay, Calif. Authorities say a couple on a camping trip came upon
Hernandez, from Oregon, who had been missing since July 6, after her car went
over a cliff in coastal California.
“People don’t normally
survive plunges down the
Big Sur coast like this. She is
very lucky,” Bernal said.
In the days that followed,
Hernandez walked the beach
searching for help, climbing
on rocks to avoid sharp sand
and walking on the shore to
get away from hot rocks, she
said.
“I found a high spot I was
able to climb up to and found
myself there almost every
day,” Hernandez wrote. “I
could see cars driving across
the cliff and felt like if I
could yell just loud enough,
that one could hear or see
me. That’s all it would take
to make it back to my family.
Just one person noticing me.”
Rescue
crews
had
searched the area and found
no obvious signs that a car
had gone over a cliff, Bernal
said.
By the third day, Her-
nandez’s jeans were torn,
her socks had holes and she
knew she was dehydrated.
She made her way back to
her car and found a 10-inch
radiator hose that had fallen
from the car during the crash.
“I walked farther south
down the beach than I ever
had before and heard a drip-
ping sound,” she wrote on
Facebook. “I looked up and
saw a huge patch of moss
with water dripping down
from it. I caught the water in
my hands and tasted it. It was
fresh!!!!”
She said she developed
a daily ritual of walking the
beach in search of new high
ground, screaming for help at
the top of her lungs and col-
lecting fresh water.
“It would be a lie to say
that things got easier as the
days passed,” she wrote.
“They never did. But, they
sure got predictable.”
Everything changed on
Friday, when Hernandez
woke up and saw a woman
walking across the shore.
“I thought it was a dream,”
she wrote. “I screamed,
“HEEELLLPPPPP!”
and
then got up as quickly as I
could and ran over to her.”
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Forecast
WEDNESDAY
Very hot with
blazing sunshine
Hot with plenty
of sun
101° 65°
96° 63°
THURSDAY
Plenty of sun
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
Plenty of sunshine
Plenty of sunshine
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
94° 59°
92° 59°
88° 56°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
100° 65°
105° 67°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
94°
89°
111° (1911)
65°
59°
39° (1904)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
0.00"
0.16"
6.49"
11.30"
7.73"
through 3 p.m. yesterday
HIGH
LOW
103°
89°
108° (2014)
60°
59°
42° (2000)
PRECIPITATION
0.00"
0.00"
0.11"
5.10"
6.59"
5.81"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
First
Full
Albany
91/55
Eugene
90/50
TEMPERATURE
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
93° 56°
Spokane
Wenatchee
95/62
100/68
Tacoma
Moses
87/56
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 102/63
93/60
69/58
83/53
101/62
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
84/59
101/69 Lewiston
104/65
Astoria
101/64
69/56
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
91/63
Pendleton 93/54
The Dalles 105/67
101/65
100/66
La Grande
Salem
97/58
92/56
Corvallis
88/53
HERMISTON
Yesterday
Normals
Records
97° 61°
Seattle
87/60
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
97° 62°
5:22 a.m.
8:40 p.m.
11:00 a.m.
11:48 p.m.
Last
New
John Day
99/61
Ontario
102/67
Bend
96/54
Today
Burns
96/52
Caldwell
100/64
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
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WORLD CITIES
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Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
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WINDS
Medford
103/60
(in mph)
Klamath Falls
94/52
Boardman
Pendleton
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Partly sunny today, except
low clouds followed by sunshine in the
south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Hot today
with plenty of sunshine. Clear tonight.
Plenty of sunshine tomorrow; hot.
Western Washington: Sunny today, but
some clouds at the coast. Increasing cloudi-
Eastern Washington: Mostly sunny today.
Mainly clear tonight. Sunshine tomorrow.
Cascades: Very warm today with plenty of
sunshine. Mainly clear tonight.
Northern California: Clouds, then sun at the
coast today; hot in central parts. Sunshine
Today
Wednesday
WSW 8-16
W 7-14
WSW 8-16
WSW 8-16
UV INDEX TODAY
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PORTLAND (AP) —
The Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife says a
small dog attacked in Port-
land last week was likely
bitten by a coyote, not a
cougar as initially reported.
According to the Port-
land Police Bureau, a
woman reported that the
dog was in her yard when
a cougar attacked early
Thursday. The dog suffered
two puncture wounds, but
survived and is expected to
make a full recovery.
The Fish and Wildlife
Department later exam-
ined the bite marks and
determined they were
likely inflicted by a coyote,
which are more common in
Oregon.
Lightning sparks
dozens of small
fires in
SW Oregon
GRANTS PASS (AP)
— A series of lightning
storms ignited dozens of
wildfires in southwestern
Oregon.
The Rogue River-
Siskiyou National Forest
reported upward of 30
starts spread out from the
Bear Camp Road area
to Prospect on Sunday
evening. Meanwhile,
the Oregon Department
of Forestry confirmed
40 fires in Jackson and
Josephine County.
Most of the fires are
small, but the volume
stretched firefighting
resources.
The Grants Pass Daily
Courier reports rain fell in
some areas, though it was
sporadic and insufficient
to aid firefighters. The
newspaper reports that one
of the blazes threatened
several homes southeast of
Jacksonville.
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Coyote, not
cougar, likely
attacked dog
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available court documents
provide details about last
month’s killing of a retired
policewoman in Central
Oregon.
The body of Gayla
Smith was found wrapped
in blankets in her Crooked
River
Ranch
home.
Police arrested her adult
son, 29-year-old Gavin
Smith-Brown.
The Bulletin newspa-
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from Smith’s friends, rel-
atives and neighbors, who
described his increas-
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ing behavior toward his
mother, and her growing
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TODAY
were hiking and looking for
places to fish when they spot-
ted Hernandez’s wrecked car
and then her. Chelsea Moore
ran and got help as her hus-
band stayed with Hernandez
and gave her fresh water.
“We just kind of panicked
and were like, ‘Oh my God,
you were in that car we just
saw and are alive,’” Chel-
sea Moore told KION-TV in
Monterey County.
Chelsea Moore made her
way to a camp and called
911 before spotting a missing
person handout with Hernan-
dez’s photo.
She rushed back with
help and Hernandez was
hoisted up a cliff by rescu-
ers and taken by helicopter
to a hospital, where she is
recovering.
“I couldn’t believe that
they were even real,” Her-
nandez said about her rescu-
ers. “I couldn’t believe that
we had finally found each
other.”
from domestic disturbance
calls, all of which the
mother initiated.
Smith-Brown
has
pleaded not guilty to a
murder charge. His attor-
neys declined comment.
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0-2, Low
3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
8-10, Very High;
11+, Extreme
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num-
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Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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National Summary: Drenching showers and locally gusty thunderstorms will extend from
New England to the Southeast, lower Mississippi Valley and central Plains today. Storms will
dot the Rockies and interior Southwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 112° in Needles, Calif.
Low 38° in Climax, Colo.
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
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89 65 c
Memphis
92 74 t
Miami
90 76 pc
Milwaukee
78 63 s
Minneapolis
80 64 s
Nashville
90 67 t
New Orleans
94 79 t
New York City
87 68 t
Oklahoma City
93 74 pc
Omaha
84 67 pc
Philadelphia
90 70 t
Phoenix
106 86 pc
Portland, ME
80 66 t
Providence
84 70 c
Raleigh
89 72 t
Rapid City
81 59 t
Reno
101 68 s
Sacramento
100 62 s
St. Louis
90 68 s
Salt Lake City
96 73 s
San Diego
76 71 pc
San Francisco
75 60 pc
Seattle
87 60 s
Tucson
97 76 pc
Washington, DC 90 71 t
Wichita
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