Idaho Woman Hopes Plane Trip Will End Nightmare Odyssey
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IOLA, Kan. — An Idaho woman whose journey to visit relatives in Kansas turned into a nightmare of blizzards and wrong turns across two states is flying home today--and said she just hopes the plane isn’t hijacked..
Nellie Obendorf, 65, said her 71-year-old husband Orville, who developed frostbite while they were stranded for 13 days in their snowbound car in northwest Kansas, had both legs amputated below the knee Wednesday in an Idaho hospital.
Furthermore, their daughter, Deborah Graves of Nampa, Ida., this week told her mother the couple’s Nampa home was burglarized sometime during their well-publicized odyssey across Kansas and Colorado.
From her sister’s home in Iola, Nellie Obendorf said she was taking her troubles in stride, but would be glad to once again see her husband--who was flown to Idaho in a medical plane last week--when she flies home later today.
“I just told my sister I hope they don’t hijack the plane,” she told The Kansas City Times. “That would be the last straw.”
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