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Terry Harnish, 72, of Hubbards, Nova Scotia, was visiting friends on Thanksgiving when she took a wrong turn onto a dirt road

A Canadian woman was found by snowmobilers after she spent three days stuck with her car on a muddy rural road in southeastern Iowa.

72-year-old Terry Harnish, of Hubbards, Nova Scotia, was visiting friends on Thanksgiving when she took a wrong turn onto a dirt road outside Fairfield, which is about 95 miles southeast of Des Moines. 

Her car became mired in mud up to its wheel wells, and she was unable to walk to one of the farmhouses she'd passed along the way.

'I journeyed by some farmhouses, and then went over a hill and another hill, and realized it was all mud and not paved,' she said to CBC. 'I was fishtailing through the mud. Thank heavens I've been a driver since I was 11, and I could manoeuvre through the mud.' 

Harnish tried to turn the car around, but her tiny Nissan got stuck in mud up to the wheel wells.

She then decided to try and walk, however Harnish, who recently had a knee replaced, found even walking a short distance difficult. 

Harnish's car became stuck in the mud and she was unable to call for help (file photo)

The mud was so thick she kept getting stuck. At one point, she lost her balance and fell face first, unable to get up for about two hours before she was able to regain the strength to stand back up.

As she tried to wipe the mud from her shoes she fell for a second time.

After regaining her footing, she decided to head back to the car where she spent the next three days in her car, surviving on a bottle of kombucha and marzipan cake according to The Des Moines Register.

She was rescued Sunday after her car was discovered by a group of snowmobilers. 

Terry Harnish was rescued three days after her car became stuck in mud on a remote road

'I was a bit concerned. I knew my angels and God would save me, but I'm glad those boys came along,' she said. 

'I knew getting back to the car was my best bet,' Harnish said from her friend's home in Fairfield. 'If I was going to be rescued at all, I would need to be in the car.

Harnish said she wanted to turn on the car to dry her clothes and warm up but the key was so caked in mud she couldn't get it into the ignition. So she tried to sleep instead. 

'I was so wet and so cold, I don't think I slept at all,' she said.  

Eventually she was able to clear the mud off and start the engine but she ran out of gas by Sunday just as a snowstorm was approaching. 

'It was so desperately cold,' Harnish said. 

Harnish said she didn't want to run out of gas. She had seen no sign of other people in the time she was stuck. She had no working cellphone and limited supplies.

'I had a fruitcake that I'd bought that morning — a Christmas fruitcake — and two bottles of kombucha,' she said. 'That was it, for four days.'

Harnish's rescuers arrived in the form of two boys out for a jaunt on their snowmobiles (file pic)

Her friends had filed a missing person's report with the Fairfield Police Department and police tried to trace her cellphone - although she hadn't taken it with her.

Fairfield police, Jefferson County Sheriff's Office and Iowa State Patrol began searching.

Fairfield police Lt. Colin Smith says Harnish ended up on a dirt road that isn't traveled this time of year.

'Where she ended up being was just too far off of any travel-able road!' Smith explained.

The heavy snow that fell Sunday proved her salvation because it brought out two teenage snowmobilers whose attention she attracted with her car lights and horn. 

'They opened the door and screamed 'Oh my God, she's alive!'' she said. 'Thank God for a miracle.' 

Their father used a tractor to take Harnish back into Fairfield more than 78 hours since she'd left on her car ride. 

Harnish was checked out at the hospital. She suffered no serious injuries. She remains in good spirits and plans to extend her six-week stay in Iowa.   

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Terry Harnish, 72, of Hubbards, Nova Scotia, was visiting friends on Thanksgiving when she took a wrong turn onto a dirt road

A Canadian woman was found by snowmobilers after she spent three days stuck with her car on a muddy rural road in southeastern Iowa.
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