We had a guy walk in here this morning. He was really thirsty. He and a friend had stayed in their truck all night since about 10 p.m. Got stuck in a drift, trying to come down our road! They had called 911 and told the sheriffs office they were on the Boulder Lake road, so they were really lost - that's 25 miles from here. They weren't very stuck but they didn't know that and because it was dark they sat there all night. They ran the truck all night to keep warm. They didn't have any chains, food or water or equipment, or anything with them but what they were wearing. At daylight he cut across the sagebrush i.e. straight in toward the house (difficult terrain, no trail - no gates) and that's really hard walking. His pant legs were wet and frozen to above his knees. We gave them water and got a scoop shovel. Joe took him back out on the snow machine and they got the truck unstuck. His friend had been digging while he walked. I would have taken the digging. Said he worked in the oilfield and when Joe asked him what he was doing out there in the middle of the night, and then asked him if he was hunting, he wouldn't answer. (Hunting is open for a few things.) I always suspect some drug deal or something fishy like poaching. He seemed nice, but they are all a bunch of rough characters. Sandy who works in the post office said she went and took a self defense class because she's afraid someday one of them might rob the P.O. or worse.
Charm said a man and his little boy were driving up her road (not plowed) in a van and got stuck. Its the back country there like here. They didn't have even coats with them, and no boots etc. Jim stopped to help him and kind of asked him what he thought he was doing out like that where the road wasn't open, and the guy told him to shut his mouth. So Jim left him there. Jim and Charm have been snow machining there since end December, as we have. (And there were other fishermen around that Jim asked to check on them but that guy was gone later.)
Very sunny here today. Much warmer the last couple of days. Snow is settling down. Between the wind scouring some places to bare ground and the drifts you don't know what we're going to get. The dogs have stretched out in the sun in the bare spots in the front yard. We were supposed to get 10 inches of snow last night, and got nothing.
Today I had an appointment but cancelled my haircut. I will give her an extra tip when I go in next time because I suspect she went in early before she got my message. Got some housecleaning done. Getting ready for the meeting took me most of 3 days with the other stuff I need to do every day, yesterday nothing else was accomplished. I'm a lot slower now than I used to be.
You probably noticed I keep mentioning the drifts. We've had way deeper snow in the past, but I don't think we've ever had drifts this big, close but these are growing every time the wind blows
