Sooo many mistakes. It's nice to see survival episodes with people who somewhat want to save themselves. But here you see a mother and step-dad who are absolutely clueless about even basic survival skills. Basically everything they do is completely wrong and just gets them into greater danger. This hurts to watch, but this is pretty much how normal 100 IQ people would act in such situations. It's a cringe factory. They go into the desert on a picnic with her 2 small girls in a car.
Firstly, they go the wrong way in the desert. Instead of trying to find the right way out they try to cross a dried up stream in their way. So they need to take their 2-wheel drive car down a small hill. It gets stuck, obviously, and they are so useless that they can't get it unstuck. This stuff is not simple and could take hours, but it's just weird they seemingly give up very fast here. This car is life and death.
Then we uncover that they have just 1 phone and it wasn't charged. So they can't even call for help! We are talking about 2 adults taking 2 small girls into the desert and the mom didn't even check to see if the phone was charged. This alone is baffling.
Then we discover that they only have a few liters of water or less for 4 people! Whaaaaat??? They are going into the desert with no extra water? So if their car broke down anywhere they would need to either hope the phone would work or that someone would find them. They could be dead in 2 days easily in scorching hot heat. This is not even about survival this is just pure thinking skills failing. Then instead of staying put or send 1 adult to the big roads they all decide to walk towards some desert roads during the day. At night they sleep. So when they have walking conditions they sleep, when it's unbearably hot they walk. The 2 girls could walk 4 miles in 4 hours at the very start. That shows you how stupid a plan it was. During the night they probably could easily walk to a big road. During the day they could have found some shadow to sleep under.
But of course there is a reason they don't want to walk at night. Human smugglers from Mexico try to kill the people they meet in this desert. So when they spot a car at night it nearly drives over them. Yep, she took her daughters to a place where you could get killed at night. They even said that you can't be there at night. So I'm not even sure what they planned for such a situation.
At the end the mother and the daughters are too tired to walk. So they just lay down. Instead of laying down near a road she is far away and a car searching for them drives by without spotting them. I mean, at this point it's like she wants to kill her family. Everything they did was bafflingly silly or insane. Just the reason for being out there makes no sense. And being so unprepared makes me think that it's not a thinking family.
It's nearly unbearable. They survive by luck. Poor daughters. But it's a strong episode. In other episodes you have divers survive at sea or climbers survive in a mountain. Here you have a regular family just make up things as they go along.
Firstly, they go the wrong way in the desert. Instead of trying to find the right way out they try to cross a dried up stream in their way. So they need to take their 2-wheel drive car down a small hill. It gets stuck, obviously, and they are so useless that they can't get it unstuck. This stuff is not simple and could take hours, but it's just weird they seemingly give up very fast here. This car is life and death.
Then we uncover that they have just 1 phone and it wasn't charged. So they can't even call for help! We are talking about 2 adults taking 2 small girls into the desert and the mom didn't even check to see if the phone was charged. This alone is baffling.
Then we discover that they only have a few liters of water or less for 4 people! Whaaaaat??? They are going into the desert with no extra water? So if their car broke down anywhere they would need to either hope the phone would work or that someone would find them. They could be dead in 2 days easily in scorching hot heat. This is not even about survival this is just pure thinking skills failing. Then instead of staying put or send 1 adult to the big roads they all decide to walk towards some desert roads during the day. At night they sleep. So when they have walking conditions they sleep, when it's unbearably hot they walk. The 2 girls could walk 4 miles in 4 hours at the very start. That shows you how stupid a plan it was. During the night they probably could easily walk to a big road. During the day they could have found some shadow to sleep under.
But of course there is a reason they don't want to walk at night. Human smugglers from Mexico try to kill the people they meet in this desert. So when they spot a car at night it nearly drives over them. Yep, she took her daughters to a place where you could get killed at night. They even said that you can't be there at night. So I'm not even sure what they planned for such a situation.
At the end the mother and the daughters are too tired to walk. So they just lay down. Instead of laying down near a road she is far away and a car searching for them drives by without spotting them. I mean, at this point it's like she wants to kill her family. Everything they did was bafflingly silly or insane. Just the reason for being out there makes no sense. And being so unprepared makes me think that it's not a thinking family.
It's nearly unbearable. They survive by luck. Poor daughters. But it's a strong episode. In other episodes you have divers survive at sea or climbers survive in a mountain. Here you have a regular family just make up things as they go along.
