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“I couldn’t believe (Opalka’s) stamina out there.
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Michael Polzin, a volunteer fireman from Girdwood, was also in the water trying to free Dickison. I had ahold of her legs, her armpits, anything.” “By that time it was over her head - she was breathing through the tube. “It was inundating everybody,” Opalka said. The tide was rushing through the channel, ice-cold and moving fast as a river. Adeana Dickison was screaming with panic. By that time, several firefighters were helping him pull on her. He took a piece of hose from the mining equipment and gave it to her, hoping she would use it to breathe as the water climbed over her head.
“It was obvious it was a dire emergency.” “By the time I got back, the water had risen to her face,” Opalka said. Opalka walked back toward the firefighters who were just arriving at the site, about a half-mile from the highway. When he arrived, Jay Dickison and the tourists were working with her. I walked on ahead to see what kind of situation we had.” “I called the fire department and told them to get on down there. “I got the call about 7:52,” Opalka quietly recalled Friday evening.
One couple joined him and another man went to the Tidewater Cafe at Portage to call for help. Finally, shortly before 8 a.m., he ran to the highway and asked a group of motorists from Minnesota for assistance. Jay Dickison told rescuers he tried for three hours to free his wife. “People need to know to stay the heck out of here - it’s treacherous.” “It’s not very forgiving,” said trooper Investigator Mark Stewart. The incoming tide creates a quicksand effect and is very dangerous.” The Alaska Milepost warns travelers: “CAUTION: Do not go out on the mud flats at low tide. The quagmire action of the mudflats in Turnagain and Knik arms is legendary. “I have a hunch they just didn’t have enough respect for the environment and what this country will do to you,” Opalka said. Adeana Dickison apparently began pushing from behind, straining to move the vehicle and in the process worked her leg into the muck. The Dickisons tried to cross a tidal slough that meanders through the flats and, according to accounts by the rescue crews, the four-wheeler became stuck in the mud. The couple had been married about a month and lived in Eagle River.īut they ventured into one of the most treacherous regions of the state, a place so deceptive that one moment it seems as solid as an asphalt highway and the next it feels like Jello pudding.
They were newly arrived from Dayton, Nev., according to troopers their silver pickup truck still bears Nevada plates. Alaska State Troopers said they planned to go to Spokane or Seattle creeks, popular spots for placer mining.
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The couple had headed out on the tidal flats early Friday, driving a four- wheel all-terrain vehicle and pulling a trailer full of gold-dredging equipment. There IS a whole new world out there.The 18-year-old woman became mired on the mudflats near Ingram Creek, about 45 miles south of Anchorage, early Friday morning and drowned in the incoming tide.Her husband, Jay, who watched helplessly as the water covered her head, was treated for mild hypothermia by paramedics. Consider this: what if you could know exactly what your bottom line is, minute by minute - or at least more often than yearly? What if you could see what referral sources are your most valuable? What if you could know which clients need a touch from you and when? What if you could see trends, projections, percentages, and accurate reports?! WOW!Īccounting can be exciting, informative, and FUN! Numbers tell a story, and when they are accurate, the pieces of your life begin to come into place like the pieces of a puzzle - and the picture is BEAUTIFUL. But when we keep our heads in the sand (or entire bodies/minds stuck in the quicksand), we continue to flounder. How would you like to get out of the Quicksand? It IS possible to go from Quicksand to QuickBooks and gain valuable information, insights, and possibilities! Seriously - are you stuck? How is that working for you? Do you feel powerless over your financial situation? Over your productivity? Over your knowledge of what’s happening in the inner-workings of your business? It’s probably putting a strain on your health and well-being.