My Wife and I Escaped Our Flooding Cabin — Then Nearly Froze to Death in the Yard

My Wife and I Escaped Our Flooding Cabin — Then Nearly Froze to Death in the Yard

This story, “Rising Terror,” appeared in the April 1955 issue of Outdoor Life. Our home is on Herriott Creek, half a mile from where it empties into the Churchill River in northern Manitoba. This creek drains 1,000 square miles, and my wife and I are the only two people living in the entire drainage. The nearest town to our cabin is Churchill, located where the river enters Hudson Bay 25 miles below us. But it’s a familiar life — I’ve been a tra…