When 85-year-old Ruby Stein left her granddaughter’s house in late March following a long-awaited visit, she never imagined what would happen next. While en route back to her home 245 miles away, the elderly woman took a wrong turn and ended up lost and stranded in the Colorado cold for five days.<\/p>
“I blowed my horn and blowed my horn and flashed my lights until the battery ran down,” Stein told The Denver Post<\/a>. “Then my car went dead. I had a cell phone with me, but it wouldn’t work.”<\/p> For roughly 120 hours, the great-grandma and her cat used what they had to survive: a sweet roll, a Rice Krispies Treat and safety pins to create a makeshift blanket from the clothes in her car, a 2007 Nissan Sentra, according to the Post.<\/p> With her life flashing before her eyes, Stein and her beloved cat, Nikki, were up to their ears in snow, stuck in the car at a dead end.<\/p> “I was keeping myself very, very calm,” said Stein, who told the Post she drank melted snow to stay hydrated. “I knew I either had to or it was over with. I have too many great-grandkids and grandkids. I didn’t want it to be over with.”<\/p>