Anyone been a local hero in the snow?

6 cars I pulled up the hill from my town centre and one blood bank van trying to get to the hospital urgently...pic of the blood van...didn’t ask for any money but one guy did give me a £10 paid for the rope I picked up just to go out helping so all is well

No but I am a nurse and managed to get me and a colleague into work and back again

flat said:

No but I am a nurse and managed to get me and a colleague into work and back again

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I went into the hospital and they were going to send me 40min to collect a dr but when I got fuel they called saying they have sorted cover

Ttwo said:

I went into the hospital and they were going to send me 40min to collect a dr but when I got fuel they called saying they have sorted cover

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Thanks for at least being available

I contacted local hospital to offer my services. They took details but nobody rang so i couldn't go out and play.
However it is now snowing again so maybe tomorrow.

Unlike pretty much the rest of my road I went to work all week, maybe I will get a reward?

lynall said:

Unlike pretty much the rest of my road I went to work all week, maybe I will get a reward?

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I think it is called a wage ....LOL..................

Cheers

Not sure if anyone would expect a woman on her own to stop and help, but I tell SWMBO not to, under any circumstances. If on her way home and local/ish and looked really stuck, she will tell me when she gets home, and I would go see. Some normal folk get stuck as anyone can, but some you see, you know, they stop at a shop facing uphill, etc etc etc.

My mate did, near enough wrote off his 2012 50k 110 USW and wrote of a D2.

I pulled a fella up a hill near mine, was almost pure ice, 110 sailed up. Came back the next day to find an abandoned car stuck at the bottom, left a note to call but never heard from em.

Few mates made the news towing lorries, cars, delivering nurses/docs all over Medway

bankz5152 said:

My mate did, near enough wrote off his 2012 50k 110 USW and wrote of a D2.

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That does not sound good...

Cheers

neilly said:

That does not sound good...

Cheers

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No it is not good! I'll post some pics once I get his permission post insurance etc... but the rad/IC are bent 60 degrees inward, PAS is fubar, fan/cowling/grill non existent, both wings bent, the bonnet is wrecked, AC condenser is literally ribbon. Winch is now in 3 parts....

bankz5152 said:

No it is not good! I'll post some pics once I get his permission post insurance etc... but the rad/IC are bent 60 degrees inward, PAS is fubar, fan/cowling/grill non existent, both wings bent, the bonnet is wrecked, AC condenser is literally ribbon. Winch is now in 3 parts....

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Sounds like something went wrong, how did he manage to wreck it?

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Hit ice, panicked, hit the brakes, skidded, smash into a D2. Still drove out of a ditch though and off the road. Not ideal, was trying to rescue a couple cars who had come off in a ditch 100m up the road. I was going to go with them, last minute decided to stay in. VERY glad I did....

Shame too as he only just got it back after someone smashed into the back of him trashing the rear end!

Well if any of you guys in Tauton A much deserved thank you.
DIL 86 and his neighbor 72 or so went to the local convince center walking and about half way there a couple of guys in a crew cab defender stopped and gave them a lift to the store. Thanks again if it was anyone from LZ

I went out in the cold and fixed my next door neighbours wiper blade back on when she managed to knock it off the arm clearing the snow off it if that counts.
I also took a parcel in for her after she went out, being retired I end up getting all the neighbours parcels, the postman thinks I am a hero.

Hi I regularly have to go to the mother in-law who gets snowed in to do some shopping and to fill the house with wood for the heating . Does that count. Sometimes having a Defender can be a real pain.

Pulled a Series 3 out of a five foot drift he had tried to plough through,I told him he should have driven faster.

No, unless you count going to the shop to get milk for an elderly neighbour, but thanks to the man who helped me with his bucket of grit when I went to see a patient in the Dacia!

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No, unless you count going to the shop to get milk for an elderly neighbour, but thanks to the man who helped me with his bucket of grit when I went to see a patient in the Dacia!

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The grit reminds me of a TV sketch, I think it was the two Ronnies.
First guy doing a crossword and thinking out aloud, "4 letters ending in I T, often found in the bottom of a birdcage" "ah got it", second guy looks over at crossword "no you fool its G R I T".
Hope you got a bucket of the right stuff.

Ttwo said:

6 cars I pulled up the hill from my town centre and one blood bank van trying to get to the hospital urgently...pic of the blood van...didn’t ask for any money but one guy did give me a £10 paid for the rope I picked up just to go out helping so all is well

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I have. I live in an ultra step sided village next to the sea. I managed to take a half tone trailer of logs up hill in 10cm of snow to get them to an old dear that lives down a long crappy lane. I was so proud of Brucey he just chugged up the hill a little slippage but he got there no problem. Downhill was a different story as I kept losing traction and ended up doing about 50 by the time I got grip again and managed to not cream in. That was change of pants time!