And if they ran out of gas on 95, they would have been spotted by now. I'm concerned that they got off a random exit looking for gas, food, bathrooms, warmth, etc, drove a few miles, ran out of gas or energy, and stopped on a remote road.
I'm worried about them too. I definitely hope they are employing more aggressive means of locating them.
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This is so concerning. If they were okay, surely they would be purchasing food, gas, etc. Maybe they have cash on them, but I don't like this at all.
I’m also very very worried for these two ladies. I’ve been wondering if one is taking the lead in trying to find home again. Is one of them a little more capable than the other? I’ve become obsessed with this thread and am probably hijacking the thread and I don’t mean to but I’m so worried. I wish more members were aware of these threads that aren’t visited so much.‘I just want my baby girl back,’ Topsham mother says as women remain missing
Kimberly Pushard, 51, and Angela Bussell, 50, were last seen at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Penobscot County town of Springfield. The women, who have intellectual disabilities, became disoriented on the interstate.
They're finally conducting an air search. I wish they had done this sooner.
This is so concerning. If they were okay, surely they would be purchasing food, gas, etc. Maybe they have cash on them, but I don't like this at all.
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I’m right there with you! Maybe because you and I are both ‘grandma’ age?
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Sadly, I agree. It's so cold here in NH tonight.
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I'm blinking back tears reading this. I keep trying to imagine what sort of cold weather survival skills these two ladies might have if they've run out of gas somewhere remote or got in an accident and ran off the road, presumably with no food, water, or emergency supplies in the vehicle with them for this long.The women have now been away from home for five nights, out in the cold and the snow.
At Smith’s General Store on Sunday, the lottery machine displayed a silver alert notification, telling customers of the ongoing search.
Sherry Glidden, who works at the store, spoke to Pushard there on Wednesday morning.
Glidden said she helped Pushard use her debit card, and Pushard made an impression. She said all kinds of people come into the store, but when someone is as kind as Pushard was, you notice.
“She was very sweet, very nice,” said Glidden.
Since she learned the women are missing, out in the cold weather, and in danger, she’s been thinking about their encounter.
Topsham Police Chief Marc Hagan said two Maine Warden Service planes were in the air again on Sunday searching, “and more wardens on the ground.”
Pushard’s car was last spotted outside a Marden’s store in Lincoln on Wednesday morning. Police believe the Jeep was headed south on Route 155 in Enfield. Hagan said the search on Sunday was focused east of I-95, “but they have wardens spread out in the area.”
Emily McCabe, spokesperson for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, said Sunday that the Maine Warden Service’s search area is “the size of Rhode Island.”
Glidden, of Smith’s General Store, said that when Pushard showed up there, “she seemed normal” and had come inside to pay for gas. “I looked out and saw she was parked at the diesel pump,” Glidden said, so she told Pushard to back her car up to a regular gasoline pump. She said she saw a passenger, presumably Bussell, in the passenger seat.
Pushard went outside to the car but then came back, asking if she had left her keys on the counter. She had. Glidden gave her the keys and helped Pushard use a debit card to buy $25 of gas.
Pushard then asked Glidden which way to head to go south. “I told her to take this road 20 miles to Lincoln,” Glidden said.
Search continues Sunday for missing women from Topsham area
Kimberly Pushard, 51, and Angela Bussell, 50, who had planned a short visit to Maine Mall on Tuesday, were last seen in Penobscot County on Wednesday.
