Posted on 11/24/2020 2:23:19 PM PST by lowbridge
A Fort St. John, B.C. man is earning praise for driving an American family in need from northern B.C. to the Alaskan border near Beaver Creek, Yukon.
The roughly 1,700-kilometre trip up the Alaska Highway in winter didn't deter him from volunteering to help out, said Gary Bath.
Bath said he noticed an online plea for help last week from an American woman driving to Alaska who was overwhelmed by the winter driving conditions and couldn't drive any farther.
"I didn't care how far it was, I just knew they needed help and they had a few short days to hit the border before they were going to get in trouble, so," Bath said, referring to the four-to-six day period Americans are given by Canada to drive from the lower 48 states to Alaska.
He said the stranded woman, Lynn Marchessault, is a former member of the U.S. military and was driving herself and her two children to Alaska to join her husband, a current member of the military.
Bath is a Canadian Ranger, and he said that was an added incentive for him to get involved.
Marchessault said she had never driven in snow before when she and her two children left Georgia to drive north.
She was driving a pickup and towing a large U-Haul trailer. As soon as she hit snowy roads she began having trouble with traction on hills.
Marchessault believed the tires on the truck were rated all-weather, but shortly after leaving Fort St. John a woman told her they were actually summer tires and helped Marchessault find a set of studded winter tires.
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Well, that explains the need for a U-Haul.
Amusing but the couple that made the Hallmark parody are woke anti-Trumpers. The guy looked more at ease playing the lady’s gal pal than the macho wood chopper.
Have you read about the people in Pt. Robert’s being stranded and not being allowed into Canada to transit to the main part of the US? Look at the map of rather border just west of Blaine, Washington. There is this weird little bit of land jutting down below the 49th parallel which is U.S. land and isolated from the rest of the U.S.
Do you have a source?
I was thinking the same thing.
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