A Break In My Season

[Hoyt 300]

  On early wednesday morning I got a call to run a loader in Buffalo. I had to drive it there from Rochester. A 4 hour ride.
  I got a new perspective on people.
  4 loaders were working opening up huge apartment complexes. The people were so glad to see us.One thing that was never mentioned, There was nothing open. For All Wednesday and Thrursday we had no food, On Thursday we couldn't find any Diesel fuel we had to drive the loaders 12 miles to... a station that had just enough to fill us.
  We were working 18 hours on 6 off, sleeping in a furnished apartment .The first 2 days all we did was make openings so emergency vehicles could get in.
  On thursday we started helping getting the cars out. It was amazing I would pull into a lot and 40 or 50 people would emerge, All with shovels, They all came together to help each other out. Every time a car was freed they would cheer and high 5s all around.Elderly people were shuttling coffee and beer to the younger workers.It became a party. There were 18 lots in this complex I was assigned to.
We finished up late last night, Got a hotel room ,Slept 6 hours and started the long ride home, Home never looked so good.

   It is now Tuesday night, I'm all rested up and ready to be in the woods at daybreak. Hard hunting till the end.

[Caveman]

This is why I'm proud to be from Buffalo.  No rioting or looting when things get bad.  Everyone bands together to help each other out.  Back when I was working as an EMT in Buffalo I remember getting the ambulance stuck in the snow on a side street.  We were in a real bad neighborhood.  Out of nowhere five young men descended on the ambulance.  I thought they wanted the drugs on board.  Turns out they all had shovels and helped dig out the ambulance and dug us a path to get to the call location.  I love this city.  

 

Thank you for helping us out.  We couldn't have done it without people like you.  

[Hoyt 300]

We were staying in the Mariott Residence Inn in Cheektowaga Friday and Saturday , Getting fuel and food and then driving to Lancaster and Orchard Park. A long ride in a Loader. The hotel looked real good after every shift

[mlammerhirt]

Thanks for all your help.

I live south of Buffalo and this lake effect ban was parked over my house for days.....thank god high lift operators like yourself made it to Buffalo to help out...I must say I have a been thru some pretty bad storms over the last 20 years but once you are husband, father and property owner priorities change and you worry about a lot of things when weather like this hits.

Once again thank you from all the people of Buffalo, we are a tuff Crew when it comes to dealing with snow, but this time we needed a little outside assistance. Lol!

[martin hunter]

wow, imagine if people in Fergeson had to deal with that ! Way to pull together, when things get hard good people come together ! 

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That's how a society should come together and overcome a large hurdle.

[turkeyfeathers]

Lancaster here. Thank you for all you did.