Angela Hernandez AMAZING Survival Story — Transcript

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1. 0:11[Music]
2. 0:38imagine falling 200 feet from the top of
3. 0:40a cliff and surviving on your own in the
4. 0:42wild for seven whole days and living to
5. 0:44tell this incredible story
6. 0:46that is the story of a 25 year old
7. 0:48angela hernandez
8. 0:49who was rescued back in 2011 after a
9. 0:52tragic fall at an oceanside cliff
10. 0:54in bakesfire california
11. 1:02on that fateful day angela hernandez was
12. 1:05traveling from oregon to lancaster
13. 1:06southern california
14. 1:08to visit her family her trip began on
15. 1:10july 5th
16. 1:112011. by 10 pm that night angela sent
17. 1:14the text to her family informing them
18. 1:16that she had decided to take a nap in
19. 1:18her car
20. 1:18at the parking lot of a grocery store
21. 1:20somewhere in the half moon bay
22. 1:22san mateo county
23. 1:26by 8 am and the next morning angela
24. 1:28notified her family that she had resumed
25. 1:30her driving down to southern california
26. 1:32and that was the last her family heard
27. 1:34from her when she stopped communicating
28. 1:36with her family
29. 1:37they contacted law enforcement and
30. 1:39notified them of a possible missing
31. 1:41person incident
32. 1:42angela was a frequent social media user
33. 1:44and the fact that she had gone dark on
34. 1:46social media
35. 1:47and had not contacted her family was
36. 1:49indeed worrisome
37. 1:50her family had no clue about what had
38. 1:52happened if only they
39. 1:54knew how close they had come to closing
40. 1:55angela hernandez that day
41. 1:58for angela her trip home to reunite with
42. 2:00her family took a deadly turn
43. 2:02when like a scene out of a horror movie
44. 2:04a small animal stepped onto the road
45. 2:06in an attempt to swerve her jeep patriot
46. 2:08away from the animal
47. 2:09angela inespecially lost control of her
48. 2:12vehicle
49. 2:13in a matter of seconds angela and her
50. 2:15car plunged 250 feet down the cliff
51. 2:18angela says she doesn't remember much of
52. 2:20the fall all she remembers is that when
53. 2:22she woke up
54. 2:23she was still in the car and water from
55. 2:25the ocean had reached her knees
56. 2:27angela soon realized the precarious
57. 2:29situation she found herself in
58. 2:31and as she became more conscious of the
59. 2:33situation she began to feel the pain all
60. 2:35over her body
61. 2:36and angela's words quote every bone in
62. 2:39my body hurt
63. 2:41and quote at that point angela knew she
64. 2:44was hanging somewhere between life and
65. 2:46death
66. 2:46and that death was more likely outcome
67. 2:48if she did not get out of the car
68. 2:50immediately
69. 2:51unfortunately every window in the car
70. 2:53was closed the power of the car was off
71. 2:55so angela was left with no other option
72. 2:58than to summon some energy to break the
73. 2:59window on the driver's side
74. 3:01thankfully it worked and she was able to
75. 3:04crawl out of the window
76. 3:05onto the dry land
77. 3:08at that point all she could think about
78. 3:10was her sister
79. 3:12angela began to scream her name as she
80. 3:14entered panic mode
81. 3:15her cry for help was futile though she
82. 3:17was 250 feet away from any sort of help
83. 3:20no one would hear her even if she
84. 3:22screamed at the top of her lungs
85. 3:24if she even had enough energy to raise
86. 3:26her voice at all
87. 3:27when she realized there was no one
88. 3:29coming for her angela fell asleep
89. 3:31her body needed some sort of rest at
90. 3:33that time and just decided to shut down
91. 3:36by the time angela woke up it was still
92. 3:38daylight but now
93. 3:39she could think more clearly and it was
94. 3:41only then that she fully came to terms
95. 3:43with what had just happened
96. 3:44she managed to stand up despite the
97. 3:46excruciating pain in her shoulders
98. 3:48back thighs and hips then she saw the
99. 3:52records of her car with the roof of the
100. 3:53car
101. 3:54completely ripped off the fact that she
102. 3:56was just standing there
103. 3:57alive was nothing short of a miracle but
104. 4:00this was just the start of the miracle
105. 4:02surviving the crash was one thing
106. 4:04staying alive till she was rescued was
107. 4:06another
108. 4:07especially in the physical condition
109. 4:08that the wreck left her in
110. 4:10somehow angela made it through for the
111. 4:12next seven days was she described as a
112. 4:15blur
113. 4:15she entered survival mode she found a
114. 4:17high spot in the rocks where she climbed
115. 4:19every day
116. 4:20hoping to catch the attention of people
117. 4:21driving across the cliff
118. 4:23angela's only hope was to yell as loudly
119. 4:25as she could to draw attention to
120. 4:27herself
121. 4:28it was the only way she could imagine
122. 4:30surviving her ordeal
123. 4:32three days into her accident angela
124. 4:34began to feel the effects of the absence
125. 4:36of food
126. 4:37she was starving and was massively
127. 4:39dehydrated
128. 4:40ingenuously she managed to retrieve a
129. 4:4210-inch radiator hose
130. 4:44from the wreckage of her car this was
131. 4:46her saving race
132. 4:47with this hose she tapped some of the
133. 4:49fresh water dripping down the cliff
134. 4:51from the natural spring as the days went
135. 4:54by angela devoted all her efforts to
136. 4:56find new high grounds
137. 4:57where she could get to and cry for help
138. 4:59at the top of her voice
139. 5:01she did this while battling the rising
140. 5:02tides of the ocean's waves every night
141. 5:05what kept angela going was hope hoped
142. 5:07that she will make it out alive and see
143. 5:09her family again
144. 5:10she would daydream of the awesome foods
145. 5:12she get to eat once she was found
146. 5:14she would replay old songs in her head
147. 5:16to entertain herself and forget about
148. 5:17her situation at the time
149. 5:19and hope did not fail angela one morning
150. 5:22angela woke up on one of her newly found
151. 5:24high spots and just across the shore
152. 5:26she could see a woman walking angela
153. 5:29screamed for help louder than she ever
154. 5:31had
155. 5:31all the days before then she noticed the
156. 5:33woman was with a man as well
157. 5:35to angela it felt like a dream the two
158. 5:38campers chelsea and chad moore
159. 5:40were only taking a walk on the beach
160. 5:41when they spotted angela's wrecked
161. 5:43vehicle
162. 5:44on meeting angela the couple acted
163. 5:46quickly as chad stayed back
164. 5:47to give angela some fresh water while
165. 5:49chelsea ran to the campground to call
166. 5:51for help
167. 5:52finally angela hernandez was found and
168. 5:55rescued
169. 5:56later she was airlifted out of the
170. 5:58location by chp helicopter
171. 6:00and was taken to twin cities community
172. 6:02hospital in templeton california
173. 6:04during her ordeal angela had suffered
174. 6:06brain hemorrhage
175. 6:07four fractured ribs two broken collar
176. 6:10bones a lung collapse
177. 6:11ruptured blood vessels in both eyes and
178. 6:13sunburns on her hands
179. 6:15feet and face but somehow she survived
180. 6:19her story is such an incredible one a
181. 6:21combination of perseverance
182. 6:24hope and the miraculous