"Another hour and she might have been dead," her husband David Molnar said yesterday.

It was not just her physical strength and endurance that kept her alive, Molnar said.

Molnar's amazing feat of survival began Friday when a vicious blizzard enveloped southern Ontario, shutting down schools and businesses across the region.

A high school secretary, Molnar began her unexpected day off by baking. It's believed she was on her way to buy some baking materials when she headed out to the store in the family van.

"She wasn't wearing much, just a winter coat, typical boots, things you'd wear to go to the store – not to go hiking for hours or climbing Mount Everest," her husband said.

Her vehicle was found Saturday in rural Ancaster, at the parking lot of Lindley's Farm and Market, closed for the season. -- There was no sign of Molnar.

Rescue teams with dogs made an intensive search of the area, but high winds kept blowing the missing woman's scent away.

It was around noon on Monday by the time a search and rescue dog named Ace found Molnar in a field off Fiddler's Green Rd., several hundred metres from her van. Her core body temperature had dropped to 30C, seven degrees below normal.

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