Reply #73: The real moral to this tragic story is "don't depend on technology in life and death matters".

[jody]

I smile to myself when graduate students tell me they've searched the literature on a topic and explain to me how google or some other search engine made their job so easy.

That also applies to those who rely on internet forums for information now that the main stream media is a hollow shell of bygone days.

I love Death Valley and the mother made to many mistakes. Sadly she will have to live the rest of her life saying "If I had only . . . ".