I want to share with as many people as possible!!!

[LAS14]

Hubby (88) and I (80) got caught in the big northeastern snow storm for three days (without electricity!!). Our car was buried under maybe a foot of snow, and hidden behind a mountain plowed from the street. So we armed ourselves with shovels and started chipping and chopping away. After a half hour or so of oh-so-slow progress, a huge utility truck pulled up near us and two young men hopped out. They asked if they could help and we eagerly said "Yes!!!" It took them about 8 minutes to shovel us out and clear off the car. I asked if they'd get in trouble if I told their boss what a great favor they'd done for us. "Nope!" So I'm not only contacting Mitch and Mike's boss at Holland Power in Canada, I'm sharing this story with everyone I can think of! How wonderful it was for us to have been so good-deeded!!!

https://imgur.com/a/DvEkajH

[Elessar Zappa]

1. Nice.

I love stories of people doing good deeds. It gives me faith in humanity.

[Basic LA]

2. Wonderful outcome.

Scary, though, that you tried to do it yourselves. And long power outages are hell.

[wendyb-NC]

3. They are heroes

So glad they helped you both. What good citizens they are.

Yay, Mitch and Mike

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Must be that Dudley DoRight blood

Sure won't happen here very often.

[Hekate]

9. Dudley DoRight has cousins in the US, you know he does

[Bayard]

5. Their mamas raised them right

[JoseBalow]

6. This is the pic

[LAS14]

19. Thanks!

What do I need to do to get the pic to show?????

[JoseBalow]

22. To get the picture to show

you need to post the full path to the image file, including the file extension (.jpeg)

Go to the image, then Right-Click on it and Copy Image Link and paste that into your post.

(I left out the https:// here to get the link text to show, instead of the image: i.imgur.com/EqPczZy.jpeg)

[LAS14]

24. And thanks again! nt

[Vinca]

7. What a nice story! The local news said there were still 10,000 people in NH without power this a.m.

Apparently, crews have come from as far as California to help with the restoration. What a messy storm. Last week I had been hoping for an early start to the garden, now I'm trying to find the garden. LOL.

[FailureToCommunicate]

8. Nice! Hope you got thru the 3 days of no power without much problem.

[Hekate]

10. Thank you for my feel-good story of the day! I am so glad you & hubby are safe...

And that you had this encounter.

[bobnicewander]

11. Love

Love, love, love!

[usonian]

12. There are some mighty nice people in this world!

During last year's monster storm in the Sierra Foothills, a neighbor of ours cut a tree that had fallen across our driveway, and then plowed that steep driveway , allowing propane to be delivered a few days later, as the tank was running near empty.

So happy that you got timely help.

[planetc]

13. You know those little surveys they always want you to fill out just because you got to their website?

I don't like to fill them out unless I got a particularly fine performance from the human being I finally got through to. Contractors of all kinds will also accept cookies, whether they're volunteer or paid. Of course if you had no power, they understood that cookie production was slow.

[Demsrule86]

14. how wonderful!

[twodogsbarking]

15. I am sure they feel good about it.too.

Helping others is its own reward.

[calimary]

16. Where I come from, that's called "virtue rewarded."

That kind of thing can restore one’s faith.

[fierywoman]

17. I LOVE THIS !!!

Thanks for sharing

[niyad]

18. Thank you so much for sharing this lovely bit of kindness with us.

Helps keep my faith in humanity somewhere above zero! Blessings to those young men, and to you and your husband!

[malaise]

20. A beautiful story

A gas station attend once rescued one of my sisters from a wall of water and refused a reward.
There are good young folks everywhere.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

21. The kindness of these workers makes me smile

Thank you for sharing

[Saoirse9]

23. Kindness when you least expected it

Lovely story. Stay warm!!

[Hope22]

25. Sweet!

So glad you weathered the storm to come out and meet those two fine people! Lovely!😁💗💗

[liberalla]

26. I love this story! Many thanks to Mitch and Mike!

Are you back home and with power again now? I hope so!

[nuxvomica]

27. I could've used some help with this storm

We got about 8 inches of heavy, wet snow by Thursday morning, when I had a colonoscopy scheduled, and I had to clear out behind my driver's car after going through prep so I was starving and dehydrated, and couldn't use the snowblower because the snow was so heavy. When I was done, the plow came by and left another huge bank where I had just cleared. I shouted "Motherfucker!" at the plow driver but he probably couldn't hear me and/or didn't care.

When we got home after the procedure, I was all set to cook up a big meal but the power was out, though it came back a few hours later. I had a bologna sandwich instead. The next day, a neighbor showed me that a 90-foot pine between his and my house was cracking under the weight of the heavy snow. Fortunately, I was able to get a crew there within a few hours and they took down four trees that were endangering my house. It was an expensive storm.

I'm glad you got help!

[Trueblue Texan]

28. Thanks for sharing this positive story! Very refreshing! nt

[OMGWTF]

29. In my next life I'm going to be Canadian. You guys are the best!!

[Evolve Dammit]

30. Good to hear the good news for a change! Glad you're ok

[dai13sy]

31. Thank you Mitch and Mike

There are still kind and generous people in this world. Telling all of us about this just creates goodwill. Thank you for sharing. I'm going to share your post on my facebook page. I want people to know the good.