Post by El Loco on Mar 24, 2013 19:42:23 GMT
Just off the phone to the family and they have just got the power back on. It's been off since Friday and they were almost out of gas for the heater .....
This is what it's looking like near the house and the wife tells me they've been walking level with the church yard wall this afternoon
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Apparently there's no chance of the snow plough/diggers getting to them for at least another day or so and there's talk of a helicopter dropping off supplies in the area. You know its bad when the farmers have given up trying to get to their animals.
But.........where there's a will, there's a way.
My youngest was supposed to be going skiing with the school yesterday and has been looking forward to it for months. There was no way anything was moving so she resigned herself to missing the trip and that was that.....
..Wrong. One of our farmer friends heard that the council had managed to get a lane dug up to a beauty spot about 3 miles from the house but couldn't get any further? So, off went the missus and the youngest with tennis rackets tied to their feet and a suitcase strapped to a sledge to meet up with him!
I kid you not. The farmer then took the youngest across the fields to the car park where the sister-in-law was waiting (which, for those of you who know the area, is a fair hike). She'll fly to Gatwick and then onto Turin tomorrow where one of the teacher's will collect her. Am I proud or what? ;D Hopefully that's the worst of the weather over for this year but I think a gennie purchase could be on the cards........
M.
