From Rindi White in Wasilla:
A story from the Peninsula Clarion Wednesday reported that three adults and five children from Palmer had a close call while clamming near Ninilchik in July.

"We were out there about an hour before low tide, and we had two buckets of clams," Palmer resident Melinda Briggs says in the article.

Briggs, her son Chad Edmonds and his girlfriend Pam Jeffrey, along with the couple's five children, were clamming on a sandbar they drove to with their four-wheeler and trailer. But the group failed to notice the incoming tide before the swift-rising water was upon them, disabling their four-wheeler and trailer. What followed was a tough slog back to shore, followed by help from on-lookers.

Read the full story here: 'God definitely spared our lives'