THEY SAVED OUR LIVES! My mom, me and my husband were travelling westbound, west of Elie during the blizzard / white out that happened on Highway 1 towards Portage La Prairie when we hit a 5 foot snow drift on the right lane; the drift covered our car and consumed it with snow; we were driving a white car in a whiteout, in a massive snow drift and oncoming traffic was coming at us; we were stuck for 2 hours on the highway sitting waiting to be hit by oncoming semi’s, trucks and cars because no one could see us. We called the stonewall rcmp and we’re basically told to die, she told us she would not be sending anyone to help us and that we had to get out of our car and dig ourselves out and that no tow trucks would be helping us. We tried explaining to her that we were completely trapped, the snow was compacted around the entire car and we had no escape point out of the vehicle, so we could not get out at all. She didn’t care, she said that it was entirely our fault and that we would have to figure out a way to not die.
We called CAA and we had this company dispatched; they came to our rescue quickly and towed us out and one of the men that helped us was standing in middle of highway in the whiteout ensuring that no cars would hit us. The one tow truck allowed us to follow him on highway towards portage and safety. We will be forever grateful for all that you did for us. We were hopeless in that moment and when each car/semi/truck passed us it felt like we were sitting on the edge of our seats waiting for death. You guys are incredibly amazing and we are so thankful. We look at the situation like this: we were told by the cop that no one was going to rescue us and we were left for dead and God sent two amazing men, two tow trucks and safety to get us off the highway and into town. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
