90-year-old Seattle woman walks 6 miles through snow to get Covid vaccination

[brooklynite]

NBC News

SEATTLE — A rare winter storm that dumped a foot of snow on Seattle couldn’t keep a 90-year-old woman from her first appointment for the coronavirus vaccine.

Fran Goldman walked six miles round trip to get her shot, The Seattle Times reports.

“I have been calling to get an appointment anywhere, every morning, every afternoon and often I’ve been online at night,” Goldman said.

She finally secured a slot for Sunday morning, but Friday and Saturday a strong winter storm moved through the region, turning the city's normally rainy streets into a winter scene of snowdrifts.

Goldman dressed in fleece pants and a short-sleeved shirt so that the nurse could get to her arm easily. Over that, she layered a fleece zip-up, then a down coat, then a rain jacket.

She then put on snow boots, took out her walking sticks and ventured onto the snowy streets.

[yonder]

1. Impressive.

[Journeyman]

2. I hope someone offered her a ride home . . .

[Raine]

5. says round trip so apparently she had to walk home too. ☹ nt

[Journeyman]

7. Sure does. Missed that . . .

I should go to bed.

[iemitsu]

3. My 90 year old mother just got her first shot too, near Seattle.

She told me she would make my youngest brother (and her care taker) wheel her through the snow in the wagon before she would miss the appointment. they di get there in the car though.
I too am impressed by this story.

[pfitz59]

4. I am working at a COVID vaccine site near Seattle

Long lines every day. Right now mostly the elderly, and frontline care workers. This weekend's snow slowed us down, but warmer weather and rain has washed nearly all the snow away, and been too warm for ice. We are doing it...

[Liberty Belle]

6. Nice she's so fit, but walking on ice is too dangerous for the elderly. My aunt got brain damage

falling on the ice and hitting her head outside her home in Texas a few years ago.

[Cha]

8. Brava! Didn't let a little

thing like weather stop her!

[Irish_Dem]

9. Never thought us old folks would be facing a real Hunger Games scenario.