Being stuck in your car at the age of 81, for almost a week, in the snow, can only portend the worst. But it is indeed a miracle that Jerry Jouret, a former NASA employee, could count on. According to our colleagues from the BBC, this octogenarian, who lives in a country house in California (United States), took to the road at the end of February to join his wife in the neighboring state of Nevada. without arriving at the destination.
In question ? The winter storms that have raged in recent weeks across the Atlantic, and caused the death of at least 13 people in California. Jerry Jouret’s car got stuck in nearly 90 centimeters of snow on a small road. Unable to move the vehicle. The American then went into “Koh-Lanta” mode, and that’s an understatement: according to the BBCChristian Jouret adapted thanks to survival techniques learned by watching the American version of the game broadcast on TF1.