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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI want to share with as many people as possible!!!
Hubby (88) and I (80) got caught in the big northeastern snow storm for three days (without electricity!!). Our car was buried under maybe a foot of snow, and hidden behind a mountain plowed from the street. So we armed ourselves with shovels and started chipping and chopping away. After a half hour or so of oh-so-slow progress, a huge utility truck pulled up near us and two young men hopped out. They asked if they could help and we eagerly said "Yes!!!" It took them about 8 minutes to shovel us out and clear off the car. I asked if they'd get in trouble if I told their boss what a great favor they'd done for us. "Nope!" So I'm not only contacting Mitch and Mike's boss at Holland Power in Canada, I'm sharing this story with everyone I can think of! How wonderful it was for us to have been so good-deeded!!!
https://imgur.com/a/DvEkajH
Elessar Zappa
(14,207 posts)I love stories of people doing good deeds. It gives me faith in humanity.
Basic LA
(2,047 posts)Scary, though, that you tried to do it yourselves. And long power outages are hell.
wendyb-NC
(3,370 posts)So glad they helped you both. What good citizens they are.
Yay, Mitch and Mike
bucolic_frolic
(43,743 posts)Sure won't happen here very often.
Hekate
(91,340 posts)Bayard
(22,392 posts)JoseBalow
(2,839 posts)What do I need to do to get the pic to show?????
JoseBalow
(2,839 posts)you need to post the full path to the image file, including the file extension (.jpeg)
Go to the image, then Right-Click on it and Copy Image Link and paste that into your post.
(I left out the https:// here to get the link text to show, instead of the image: i.imgur.com/EqPczZy.jpeg)
LAS14
(13,803 posts)Vinca
(50,374 posts)Apparently, crews have come from as far as California to help with the restoration. What a messy storm. Last week I had been hoping for an early start to the garden, now I'm trying to find the garden. LOL.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,052 posts)Hekate
(91,340 posts)And that you had this encounter.
Love, love, love!
usonian
(10,141 posts)During last year's monster storm in the Sierra Foothills, a neighbor of ours cut a tree that had fallen across our driveway, and then plowed that steep driveway , allowing propane to be delivered a few days later, as the tank was running near empty.
So happy that you got timely help.
planetc
(7,895 posts)I don't like to fill them out unless I got a particularly fine performance from the human being I finally got through to. Contractors of all kinds will also accept cookies, whether they're volunteer or paid. Of course if you had no power, they understood that cookie production was slow.
Demsrule86
(68,997 posts)twodogsbarking
(10,136 posts)Helping others is its own reward.
calimary
(81,768 posts)That kind of thing can restore ones faith.
fierywoman
(7,716 posts)Thanks for sharing
niyad
(114,401 posts)Helps keep my faith in humanity somewhere above zero! Blessings to those young men, and to you and your husband!
malaise
(269,791 posts)A gas station attend once rescued one of my sisters from a wall of water and refused a reward.
There are good young folks everywhere.
LetMyPeopleVote
(146,504 posts)Thank you for sharing
Saoirse9
(3,694 posts)Lovely story. Stay warm!!
So glad you weathered the storm to come out and meet those two fine people! Lovely!😁💗💗
liberalla
(9,307 posts)Are you back home and with power again now? I hope so!
nuxvomica
(12,517 posts)We got about 8 inches of heavy, wet snow by Thursday morning, when I had a colonoscopy scheduled, and I had to clear out behind my driver's car after going through prep so I was starving and dehydrated, and couldn't use the snowblower because the snow was so heavy. When I was done, the plow came by and left another huge bank where I had just cleared. I shouted "Motherfucker!" at the plow driver but he probably couldn't hear me and/or didn't care.
When we got home after the procedure, I was all set to cook up a big meal but the power was out, though it came back a few hours later. I had a bologna sandwich instead. The next day, a neighbor showed me that a 90-foot pine between his and my house was cracking under the weight of the heavy snow. Fortunately, I was able to get a crew there within a few hours and they took down four trees that were endangering my house. It was an expensive storm.
I'm glad you got help!
Trueblue Texan
(2,473 posts)OMGWTF
(4,027 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,943 posts)dai13sy
(361 posts)There are still kind and generous people in this world. Telling all of us about this just creates goodwill. Thank you for sharing. I'm going to share your post on my facebook page. I want people to know the good.