(FOX 9) - You'd think someone who nearly died after a close call with extreme cold would have moved somewhere warm, but even after her near death experience Jean Vig still calls Minnesota home."It was definitely a miracle that I survived," Vig told FOX 9 of her frigid night.It was Dec.
20, 1980 – a few months after Vig graduated from high school when she went out to meet some friends near her hometown of Lengby.While driving home she took a shortcut on an icy gravel road, and her car slid into a ditch.
So Vig decided to walk to a friend's house she believed was nearby."What I thought was a half a mile turned out to be two miles to his house, and what I thought was just a cold night was a dangerously cold night," Vig recalled.Vig says she walked down the rural road wearing a snowmobile jacket, cowboy boots and thin gloves on a night when the wind child made it feel much colder than the 22 degrees below zero air temperature.
In 1980 Jean Vig became stranded and nearly froze to death, but despite the cold she still calls Minnesota home. An hour later she finally saw her friend's house through the trees, and that's the last thing she remembers."It was like somebody turned out the lights – I just fell asleep," she said.Six hours later, Vig's friend found her covered in snow in his yard, apparently frozen solid like a block of ice.