CLEARWATER, Fla. — On Thanksgiving Day, a Polk County father and son said they were thankful to be alive after a 20-hour ordeal that left them stranded in the gulf. It happened after their boat capsized Monday.
“You’re thinking, ‘Is this it?'” said Cris Harding, Sr. “And to have your son on the boat with you is the worst feeling in the world.”
Eighteen-year-old Cris Harding, Jr. was released from the hospital Wednesday. He and his father said they were doing well and that two other family members on the boat, great uncle Clarence Woods, 90, and father-in-law and grandfather Dennis Woods, 70, were still hospitalized but expected to be okay…