Flash Flood on Family Hike: Father’s Nightmare

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In 2014, the Greenbergs are enjoying a restorative family holiday on Kauai - a wild and stunning Hawaiian island used as a location for the Jurassic Park films. And it’s here that the Greenbergs suddenly find themselves in a terrifying ordeal worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster. On a leisurely hike, a flash flood throws the family into turmoil. Father Rich will find himself battling the most brutal of conditions, with the lives of his children in peril… A Noiser production, written by Nicole Edmunds. For more on this story read Rich's book Surviving a Miracle. For ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the Noiser+ banner to get started. Or, if you’re on Spotify or Android, go to noiser.com/subscriptions If you have an amazing survival story of your own that you’d like to put forward for the show, let us know. Drop us an email at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.6	It's April 6, 2014, 1115 a.m.
0:38.3	Deep in the lush green forests of Kauai in Hawaii, a storm is raging.
0:45.3	Rain torrents down as an unstoppable wind howls through the thick canopy of trees.
0:52.3	Rivers and creeks crash through the undergrowth, their
0:56.0	banks threatening to burst. Conditions like these are treacherous. No one wants to be caught
1:03.3	out in them. But that's exactly where the Greenberg family now find themselves, navigating
1:10.6	a fast-flowing river on the Kalalao
1:12.9	Trail.
1:15.5	Forty-year-old Rich Greenberg leads his three children across the water.
1:21.0	With baby Marla on his back, he clutches onto his nine-year-old daughter Samantha and instructs
1:26.0	her to take her big brother Zach's hand
1:28.2	for extra stability.
1:30.6	Their knuckles white from the cold,
1:33.0	they grip onto each other with everything they've got,
1:35.4	sloshing through the rising, raging water
1:37.5	and clambering over slick rocks.
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