Marooned in 1799

Matt and Lily Warren’s adult son, Kyle, travels to his parents’ home in a northern Michigan retirement farm to spend a long Memorial Day weekend with his parents. The first night he is there, a fiery comet passes over head followed by tremendous thunder and an enormous snowstorm. After three days, the family is trapped in the house by eight feet of snow.

To save the house from flooding when the snow melts, Matt and Kyle must make a dangerous trip on snowshoes in thirty degree below temperatures, across the deep snow from the house’s upstairs bedroom window to their barn. The trip nearly kills Kyle. After hours of back breaking work in the freezing temperatures, they get into the barn and open the eighteen-foot door allowing them to get Matt’s John Deere tractor and snowblower out.

For two days, the men brave freezing temperatures to blow snow away from the house and open a path for melting water to drain away from the house and into a pond, saving it from flooding.

This is the first of many challenges the Warren family faces to survive without the aid of modern technology. Could you survive without a grocery store, gasoline for your car, fuel to run the furnace, electricity to run the refrigerator and light the house? See how they face these and numerous other challenges in this exciting story of survival.