Weekend from h.e. double toothpicks.

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   My inlaws will be 80 this spring and now need help. My wife and I moved them here this weekend from Calgary on a very tight schedule. 3:30 a.m. Saturday on the road. Lots of fog from here to Mcbride. Clear until Jasper. Stopped for breakfast and then it happened. The parkway had gotten 10 cm. of snow overnight and still falling. Slow careful journey. 50 k from Lake Louise we came around a corner to see a young man waving frantically. We took a deep breath and stopped. He and his girlfriend (who was driving a little car she borrowed from her friend) had gone off the road and down a steep 50 foot embankment. 10 feet to either side they would have clipped a tree, instead they just mowed down some little ones. We drove them in to lake Louise and waited till' we were sure they had someone coming. On to Calgary. Arrived at 2 and had the u-haul by 4. 1 helper and me loading and my wife and another lady packing. loaded by 9. Find the hotel and BEER. Going by 9:30 we stop for gas and my father in law has lost his money. By the time we backtracked and found his travel money it was 11:30. We decided to go the long way around via Edmonton. The freeway between Calgary and Edmonton was terrible. Snowing and blowing with 40 km n.w. winds the u-haul was a sailboat overweight with light steering. At 60 k we were passing and my wife counted 26 cars in the ditch, many still running and occupied. We stopped to pee and fuel in Le Duc and the lady showed me how to through Devon to Spruce Grove and circumvent Edmonton. Made it to Hinton by 7 p.m. By then it was dark and my wife and father in law were done driving. Had dinner with them and hit the road. Home by 12:30. Up at 8, drove the kids to school then washed the truck. Waited for my wife to arrive then enlisting the help of my son and neighbor we unloaded the truck in an hour and 10. Fueled and returned it with 20 minutes to spare. Picked up kids and our daughter to watch the kids while we set up their furniture and stacked their boxes, done at 8 tonight. Me tired go sleep now. CHEERS. 

[MaximX]

Oh wow.....your guardian angel must have put in some overtime on that trip.  Glad you made it through all that mess......

[madmac74]

Holy Crap!  well done Wayne!  After 5 years in edmonton I remember those storms , And the poeple in the ditches

MAC

[PeggySue]

Wow! You deserve a good sleep after all that.... and a HERO COOKIE!
Well done.
The weather up that way can be hellish this time of year, you're right. Even in the fall it can get, well, weird. My dad and brother were on their way to Edmonton in Aug. and got pelted with golf-ball sized hail. Took out a lot of cars and  trucks, it was actually flowing down the sides of the hwy after bouncing off the pavement. Dad's truck took about $12,000 in damage, according to ICBC.

Glad you made it home safe after all that, and good on you to assist both fellow travelers and the inlaws.

Cheers,
Peg