Blizzards, Fires, Wrecks...

Just a few facts from the last couple of days.

• Friday morning the angels were busy at work for a dear friend of ours! The RR Crossing lights didn't work at a crossing or at least not until it was too late. He didn't see the train either until there was no time to stop (he was pulling a trailer and skid steer), so his options were to be hit by a train and most likely not make it or to take the ditch and hope for the best! The ditch was his choice, and a good one since he walked away, but not before Kelly nearly lost it, as he was first on seen! He is Very lucky to be alive!
• Kelly got off work at 12 because of the blizzard that was coming. (I thought we would have a relaxing day at home!)
• Morris Fire was called to help out another local fire department at a house fire. Kelly and a few of the others went right away. Then they called for more members to attend so 3 more of us went along with 50 bottles of Gatorade! Well, the house was a total loss already, so we were basically just trying to finish putting out the fire. But the storm was rolling in and we all knew if we didn't leave soon we'd be stuck there for the night! One of the truck pumps had already frozen solid so that truck was no good, another one had hit the ditch (due to blowing snow), and the place had no water hydrant on it so we were having to haul water in... and like I said the roads were getting to be really bad already! So, we left it to burn!:( Poor people were on vacation in Florida!
• It took us 50 minutes to drive our 9 miles back to Morris! That was after many yells of 'Go Left', 'Now Right', 'Center', and 'You're Doing Good'!
• This morning I opened the door to a waist high drift! So..I 'waded' through it!
• Our first call on the ambulance today was at 11 or so and we still couldn't always see the road! (Why do people think they can drive in blizzard and then just call 911 when they hit the ditch?!)

And there you have it... Now we're home relaxing and hoping the pagers don't go off again tonight, because it had turned really cold!