In the hatch was Desmond, who had been stranded on the island three years earlier.
Many of them had been stranded for months in El Arish, on the northern Sinai coast.
On Friday, the Arkansas Highway Patrol estimated that at least 1,000 motorists had been stranded.
Back in Beaumont, firefighters waded through the trailer park, looking for anyone who had been stranded.
His father, a diabetic old man, had been stranded on the second floor.
Officials estimated that hundreds of drivers had been stranded or had abandoned their cars.
The 18 people aboard, including a baby, had been stranded in one of the harshest environments on earth.
They spent time pulling people from their cars — people had been stranded in their vehicles when the shooting began.
In the meantime, people who had been stranded in legal limbo rushed to fly back to the United States.
Jesme Baird, his wife, had been stranded in Hong Kong due to the Icelandic volcano ash cloud, he said.
Many had been stranded outside the city by the Israeli takeover of their town 16 days ago.
