The snowstorm was supposed to hit the evening of Monday, Jan.31. I was working from home but I had to leave that afternoon and go to my office to sign an emergency financial aid check for a student. The route to the office took about 30 minutes along the highway. When I got there, my colleague came to my office to co-sign the check, and left. As I was packing up, I noticed he had left his laptop bag in my office.
"I can bring it to you," I assured him. It was just past 4:30 p. m. The snow wasn't supposed to start until later. On the way to his place, I picked up a new cellphone charger, and filled up my SUV with gas.
It took me about 15 minutes to get to my colleague's house, where I dropped off the laptop case and got back on the road. Then the snow started, and it was coming down fast. Within minutes, the windows were fogging up and getting covered with snow, so I rolled down my driver's side window, thinking I could better follow the edge of the road and keep to a straight line. But really, I didn't have a clue where I was or even which side of the road I was on.
I called 911, but the dispatcher(调度员) told me that nobody was coming to get me until morning at the earliest. The storm would continue for longer than predicted and I worried I'd freeze to death.
Breathe ,I told myself. Panicking won't help.
I stopped the car, pinning my location on Google Maps, figuring out that I was on a road called Bouvier Lane, in between two farms. I posted this new information to my Facebook community group, pleading for anyone who knew who lived on the farms to help me get rescued.
At 8 p. m., my cellphone rang. It was the son of the farmer, André Bouvier, who owned the land beside the road I was stuck in. He told me that his dad had just helped two other cars get to his house, a father and his two kids, and a couple with their daughter. He comforted me that his dad was coming to get me.
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Then, about 45 minutes later, I saw a tall figure, pacing toward me in the dark, carrying a flashlight.
We reached the house at last, I driving slowly behind Andre Bouvier.