Family Cheats Death In Arizona Desert | S5 E1 | Full Episode | I Shouldn't Be Alive

Mind blown. Barely any water, no phone charger, no jack for the vehicle, and traveling during the heat of day. Wow

Thank God they survived! I really don't want to sound rude or judgemental, I just can't believe the bad decision making this mother had. Taking her kids to the desert, she should have been WAY more mindful. It was already a bad idea to go in the desert without plenty of water, food, and emergency supplies for "just in case reasons", but to go off trail was a horrible idea. Then, for her to think it was a good idea for her and her kids to leave their car and go with her bf to go see if there were any "supplies" in the random broken down car rather than her and her kids wait at their car that had air conditioning while her bf went to check....it was totally ludacris and a horrible decision. Then, when the bf went to go get help....the mom had the ridiculous idea for her and her kids to start walking again... in the opposite way of their car....and then along the way she got to the path that she knew for a fact would lead her kids to safety but instead goes further out into the desert to find her bf....it's just crazy to me!!! The most important thing is they survived, but they should have never been put in that situation to begin with. Sometimes people underestimate things in life and this was most definitely one of those times.

Her kids watching this back, realizing the mom knew the way home, but chose to go look for her new boyfriend instead, must feel really upset

I’m a woman who was born here in AZ and I keep a waterproof backpack filled with heat tolerant emergency supplies in my car at all times. We’re taught as kids to always carry key items and, if that wasn’t sufficient, you hear stories of people who weren’t prepared that should serve as a warning. Recognizing the landscape isn’t the same as knowing how to survive in it, clearly. It felt like she was making an effort to ignore every rule of going into the desert.

Why would ANYONE keep driving down such a road that she knew was NOT the right one, and then made even worse by trying to get over the embankment of a dry riverbed like that???

14 minutes in and Ive already lost count of the horrible decisions made. Life is HARD! Its even harder when you’re stupid!

How to make every mistake while lost in desert

The way this lady still tries to pretend she's an "outdoors type of person" who "knows this desert" explains a lot about how they ended up in this situation to start with. She may have been going out there her whole life, but she apparently didn't learn anything. 1. Her excuse for not having shovels or any other gear is that "we were just going out shooting for the afternoon." but anyone who has been in the desert for any length of time knows you never go into the desert unprepared- not even if it's for just a few minutes. They say that about the wilderness in general, but it's especially true of any extreme environment- and the desert is definitely an extreme environment. She should've known better than to go there in a normal, 2-wheel drive truck- with no extra water or gear of any kind. 2. Once you're stuck in the desert- as dangerous as it may seem- you move at night, not during the day. The nights actually get pretty cold- moving around keeps you from getting too cold- and saves you from the heat of the day. As soon as the sun gets a good hand's width above the horizon- you find shade and stay still until it sets again. That is- if you're going to move it all- 3. you're best to stay with your vehicle because it's much easier to find. And it provides cover form the sun, and protection from animals at night. The only way I would not do that is if I knew no one was going to miss me so there wouldn't be a search- or I knew my way out and thought I could make it. This lady didn't know jack about being in the wilderness or the desert imo. There's no shame in that- 99% of ppl don't- but they also don't go out there pretending they do- with their kids.

That dry riverbed was the first sign to turn around and drive back because clearly it wasn't in the path where they came from

They did an excellent job of keeping the suspense. I had no idea whether or not parents stayed together or if the little girl lived.

Get the vehicle stuck when you could turn around. Everybody walks to get a jack. Leave your vehicle. Man walks for help so you change your location. Recognize where you are and go the wrong way on purpose. Wow.

Like others, I am baffled at a few things. The dead phone and no charger. Not having a jack- what the F are you going to do when you get a flat in the middle of the desert without a jack. Why not dig under your bumper to get back tires touching the ground. These two adults were mind blowingly unprepared to drive in their neighborhood let alone to the middle of a desert, and with 2 kids. I literally wouldn't go off my driveway without a jack and spare tire.

Everyone else has talked about their mistakes. We’ve all made them. Maybe not all have made life threatening mistakes but some of you who are commenting m definitely have. You just got lucky too. I’m just happy they’re all alive. They’ve paid enough for their mistakes. As a parent, I cannot imagine the guilt and anguish they both felt. How sad. So so happy they’re ok!

Soon as i heard mum say kinnygarden i knew she wasnt prepped for the fucking dessert.

I’m an outdoorsman from AZ and I can say, there isn’t really anything dangerous in AZ at night except maybe rattlers if you’re walking around. The mexican smugglers don’t want to be seen they keep to themselves

Those two guys that drove off, pure fucking evil.

There’s all kinds of dumb out there. Who takes their children and marches them across a dry hot desert instead of sitting in the shade of the truck? And then replace the word stupid with stubborn. 😂

Omg I was crying that Michaela had passed away, what a relief!!! So happy for you Michaela!

Everyone is talking about how awful those two guys in the truck are but failing to make the connection that the mom is exactly the same type of person. Just listen to the way she is talking about immigrants and being hysterical about the “Mexican gangs and smugglers crawling all over the desert” and the only “threat” she ran into was someone in a truck that SHE pulled a gun on. If they saw her as a threat first, it’s likely they saw her as the same kind of person she was afraid of. Just a bunch of racists scaring each other in the darkness.

The truck with AC, run the AC and the intense cold of the condenser against the red hot air will cause large amounts of condensation to form. Collecting this clean water would have been a very good move before leaving the truck with the AC. Often people think they have a leak when water is running from their engine bay to the floor, that's how much water you can generate from an AC condenser on a warm day!