Free Republic

A Black Hawk helicopter touched down in their pasture to ferry a heart patient to safety. Thirty stranded travelers said goodbye after staying two nights. Fourteen others settled in for their third straight overnight stay. And four more who had spent a chilly, frightening night in their snowbound car stopped in for some cocoa before hitting the road. That was New Year's Eve at the Glover family's small ranch home between Clayton and Springer, which became the only port in the storm for dozens of northeastern New Mexico travelers caught in the Blizzard of 2006. "It's pretty quiet," Christine Glover...

Christine and Randy Glover had a full house — 44 sudden guests stranded by a blizzard along a rural highway in northeastern New Mexico.... Motorists from Colorado, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas descended on the Glovers' three-bedroom, 1,200-square-foot home after their vehicles became stuck in 3- to 4-foot deep snowdrifts on U.S. 56 highway between Springer and Clayton. ''We just were in the right place at the right time,'' said Christine Glover. The stranded motorists spent Friday and Saturday at the home. Most left Sunday as the highway was cleared... She and her husband realized motorists were trapped only 150 yards...