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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted March 03, 2018 12:17 PM
Gosh, most of us have probably been in that same kind of situation ...
I'm glad that he had his door shut most of the time, I'm betting tha language within that vehicle was, shall we say ... blue?
The funny thing about situations like this is that sometimes a person makes they're situation even worse with each step they take. I'm quite surprised that the person didn't take his anger out on his vehicle. I didn't film it, but i watched a poor gent who felt that, since he was stuck, it was obviously his vehicles fault and not his, so he danced about the vehicle with reckless abandon kicking assorted parts and at one point, as he took his anger out upon his innocent victim, he managed to kick off a portion of the hard plastic on his front bumper, and that just sent him off even more.
Now, the humanitarian in me did want to go down and help the poor lad, but i didn't like the idea of a potential kick from obviously imbalanced individual.
The moral of the story?
Always carry some cat litter!
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Graham Ritchie
Film God
Posts: 4001
From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted March 03, 2018 04:15 PM
I remember once nearly getting stuck in a snow storm back in 1974-75. I was with a group of people intending to ski the Tasman Glacier near Mt Cook when the weather closed in. A friend of mine offered me his a car, a MK2 Cortina 1967 to head back to Christchurch. I took his offer and headed of behind a bus driving in its track.
The snow got heaveier and heavier then the engine began to splutter. I looked at the fuel gauge and to my horror it was on the empty NOOOOOOO I thought what a fool. I should have checked anyway I came to a halt in the middle of now where, miles either way and not a house or car in sight....nothing but lots of snow.
I opened the bonnet.. hood in the US.. and found a chunk of snow on the distributor cap. I removed the cap and the HT cables and tried to dry them of, then using the car heater stuck the distributor and leads as close to the heater as possible. Without the engine running and water flowing it ain't going to do much but it was better than nothing.
I fitted the distributor cap, attached the leads, crossed my fingers and tried to start the engine. It came to life straight away, however the gauge was on the empty, but the engine was running. In the short time I was stopped, so much heavy snow had fallen I was not sure how things were going to work out. The only reference I had were the telegraph poles, so thought if I drive down the middle I should be on the road.
I plowed that old Cortina through deep snow, slipping and sliding for a good half hour or more, until I came to the main road which the snow plows were thankfully clearing. I continued to drive on what should be a empty tank to a small township called Twizel, to the one and only sevice station for miles. Thankfully it was still open so I could fill up. Once on the main road things improved driving wise. I came to a place called "Burke Pass", its one of those places you drive through in seconds, but I stopped at a wee cafe. I went in and this lovely elderly lady told me to sit down, and placed a electric heater next to me to warm up. I then had one of the best cooked breakfast in my life..it was great. I was her only customer, so we chatted about the weather etc. The rest of the trip home was uneventfull, but never forgot how close I was to being stranded, or the wonderfull lady and the cooked breakfast.
Oh! The people I left at The Hermitage at Mt Cook told me later, the road was closed off just after I had left and they were forced to spend the following winter night in front of a large log fine next to the bar
One thing I learned from that experence is always keep the tank filled to the top, take sleeping bags, wet weather gear, extra warm clothing, tow rope, jumper cables, tools, torch, etc etc...just in case
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