This morning while driving Daniel to school, on the radio, KMPS was interviewing Sha (pronounced Shay) Nohr, who’s daughter is a friend of Laura Hatch, the 17 yr old who’s car had crashed into a ravine and survived 8 days before being found.
Sha was really wonderful to listen to. She had vivid dreams about finding Laura, and on Sunday, she and her daughter decided to go look for Laura because of the dreams. At one point on Sunday, they were going to stop because it was getting late, but they decided to look in one more area. Sha went down into the ravine that eventually led to Laura, and because of the brush, she couldn’t see anything. She did notice that branches were broken around her, but thought perhaps that was from one of the wind storms. Nothing really unusual. She was going to come back up the hill, but her daughter insisted and said, “keep going, keep going” which was what she was told in her dream. Had Sha not listened, she may have never continued on to find Laura.
The road that Laura’s car went off was a windy two lane road, and apparently the section that her car went off was the only partition that did not have a guard rail. Two passerby’s stopped while Sha and her daughter were searching, thinking they had been in an accident. It was at this time that Sha found the car, but did not feel she could go forward to the side of the vehicle, probably finding a body. One of the passerby’s came down, and saw that there was a body in the backseat. When Sha and the man were attempting to take the license plate off (to be identified by police), Laura made a moaning sound. She was conscious, and when Sha’s daughter came down to talk to Laura, Laura said to her that she couldn’t believe she brought her mom there. Obviously unclear as to the extent of what had happened to her! Laura was also saying how she needed to hurry because she was going to be late for curfew–she did not realize it had been 8 days.
This section may sound judgmental on my part, but I can’t understand how her family would state “We had already given her up and let her be dead in our hearts” (her mother, Jean Hatch). And also thinking that she was a runaway. I am also a bit peeved at the kids that were at the party that did not give the location after quite some time of where the party was (so that the search could be better traced at the beginning). I think that maybe I am reading into what the media has put into text, so I shouldn’t pass on judgment… but I could not give up my persistence if my child turned up missing. I know they put out a missing persons alert, so I am thinking that the context of the statement of thinking she was dead after a week may be misconstrued.
Brings about another point. Teenage drinking. I know it happens, and just because I never did it doesn’t mean that my friends did not while I was growing up. Kids don’t understand the enormous burden they are placing on themselves when they take that drink to fit in and be like everyone else. And on top of that, driving… that is very horrifying.
Parents, your kids are not perfect and straight-laced. Just get that out of your head. Know where your kids are going. there are even beacons you can have placed in a vehicle if you are that concerned (one of the security companies is now doing this to be able to get into the On Star market). Parenthood doesn’t end when you think your child is adult-like. You still need to know the basics: who, what, where, when.
I have a feeling that the Eastside group of kids at that party may be a little shaken up after this–I hope. I hope that if an event like that were to ever happen again, they would use at least use that one brain little brain cell that says to call home for a ride.
Laura Hatch, God was with you and saved you for a reason. Use your life, it’s time to earn it. My prayers to you.
And to Sha Nohr, unlike what that Southern Baptist preacher told you–that these visions are from the devil (when you told him that you had a visit from a grandmother), you have a gift, and I don’t believe that anyone from Laura Hatch’s family would disagree. If that was a vision from the devil, I don’t want to know that Southern Baptist’s “God”.
Laura Hatch story on King5
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I used Kevin’s camera to try and get some better photos, and a couple did turn out ok. I tend to be shaky, so mix that in with a flitting bird and we have issues.
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