Posted on 02/27/2019 4:48:18 PM PST by nascarnation
A woman who authorities believe was living in her car was rescued after a snowplow inadvertently bumped into her vehicle, which was buried in snow.
South Lake Tahoe, California, city spokesman Chris Fiore highlighted the Feb. 17 incident in a Tuesday news release urging drivers to take safety precautions in winter weather. He said the city has had problems with illegally parked vehicles, which slows snow removal.
Fiore said the snowplow driver bumped into the back of the car, which popped the vehicle's trunk open. After that happened, workers from the plow truck started shoveling around the vehicle to prepare to tow it. That's when the woman put her hand on the window from the inside.
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See the stick in the snow Plow King? It’s a marker.
Tahoe typically has lotsa “Sierra Cement” [Mammoth too].
No way could an individual shovel keep their property open.
It’s a wonder that she had enough air.
Tahoe typically has lotsa “Sierra Cement” [Mammoth too].
No way could an individual shoveling keep their property open.
That’s Mr Plow
In the UK some traffic warden would have ticketed her; before she was dug out.
But 5 hours in a sealed car under the snow, no battery, no heat --- and she was "not concerned"?
She had to have been mentally fogged.
Dead battery, trapped in her car for 5 hours and was unconcerned, declined medical attention and just left while they towed the car.
Uh-huh. Either she had a really good book or really good drugs and hadn’t run out of either yet.
“”She had to have been mentally fogged.””
The others are serving in Congress.
She was unconcerned.
Of course not! Snow cave. Best place in the world to be in a blizzard.
‘Course, I’d have been worried about suffocating, as someone else said. But who am I to question Mrs. Nanook of the North?
Good points. And maybe she isn’t mentally stable.
“You scratched the paint!”
Or a body?
the snowplow driver bumped into the back of the car, which popped the vehicle's trunk open
Sounds familiar.
Hmmm. Wonder what was in the trunk??
I was frozen into my truck once after a big ice storm, about an inch and a half layer of ice all over it. Doors were frozen shut, even the one we’d shot up with alcohol in order to open it so I could get in. On the way home, water had refroze the locks. I got home and realized I was frozen in so tried rolling down the windows - to no avail, they were frozen in place and the doors had ice in all the cracks because just enough melted water from the warm urfaces of the tuck had flowed in to freeze to a thick glace when the temps dropped on the way home.
Wasn’t that bad as I could still drive - as long as the gas held out. Problem was the cops were all out on calls. Firestation, too. No place was open. No people were out on the streets. There weren’t cell phones yet. At first I figured no big deal, I had chocolate and water.
All I could do was stay out front honking at family I knew to be home, but thy were in the basement watching TV. Then I realized I had to pee.
Frantic honking.
No containers in the car of any kind to pee in.
More frantic honking.
Then it occurred to me to try the garage door opener- not to get in since there was already a car in there, ...but to make enough unusual noise to wean the family off of the boob tube. After hearing the garage door go up and down 6 or 7 times they got a clue and came out...assessed the situation and got out heavy tools to thump the ice off while I finished up the chocolate. Emergency averted...
I knew a guy who drove one of the big highway plows in Massachusetts back in the Seventies, and he said he was plowing the Mass Pike and felt a bump...then another bump...then another bump, and then he saw the bottom and wheels of a Volkswagen Beetle appear in the mass of snow and then disappear again...then reappear again...:)
I’m gonna guess that was in The Blizzard of 78!
Ever hear of an igloo?
The snow insulates the inside. It's not warm, but it's not 20 below zero either.
EVERYONE that drives out west has heard they should keep a blanket, candle and food in their car in case they get stranded in the winter. Out here, they measure heavy snowfall in FEET, not inches.
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