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Like most days we have been travelling, it was raining when we left Winnipeg. I had a sneaky suspicion, and I voiced it, that it would be snowing by the time we made it to Saskatchewan. I was wrong...it started snowing before we made it to Saskatchewan. Actually, the roads were terrible the ENTIRE trip. They started the degrade slowly but were not very good by the time we were only an hour out of Winnipeg. Great....!
To be honest, this post won't be very thrilling. Because of the lameness of the weather we had to pay attention to the roads, go slow and take our time.
Winnipeg to Regina was okay...the roads were slushy and starting to get worse, but we could still go about 90km/hr.
After Regina it all went downhill.
The roads were slushy and the temperature was starting to drop. Our speed also did the same. We, unfortunately have all of our weight in the back (except for us two in the front), and we have summer tires on our car, so our chances were pretty slim.
All was well but in a split second we managed to plonk Jerusalem right into the middle of the ditch. The wind had caught our car and we tried to pull out of it, but before we knew it the snow/slush had caught our front tires and pulled us towards the median of the divided highway. We somehow managed when all was said and done to be facing the absolute opposite direction from where we needed to go.
Both people were just fine, our car just fine, but we were defintely stuck.
We had kept track on our trip of how many vehicles we had seen. With us in the snow our tally came to 3 semis and 5 cars in the ditch from Winnipeg to Saskatoon. The roads were BADDD!!
We called in our second wish with CAA and waited on hold for quite a while (i'm guessing because the tow trucks were crazy busy) and finally got in touch with them to come and get us out.
We waited for an hour and were told if the tow truck driver had not arrived to call back, and so we did. By 6pm we were still waiting for the tow; CAA had said he should be along shortly. To keep ourselves busy we watched two episodes of Grey's Anatomy-hallelujah for charged laptops and the technology to even have a laptop and watch it while in the...uh..ditch.
Anyhow..the tow truck came about an hour and 15min after our initial call (which wasn't bad considering the number of people in the ditch) and before we knew it we were back on the icy, icy, icy road.
It didn't take us very long to decide that driving to Saskatoon tonight would be absolutely ridiculous (as it was still 150km away) so I got in touch with some friends and figured out that Davidson was probably the only place along the highway to stop for the night.
Davidson was only 50km away from where we went in the ditch, but considering the roads our max speed was about 40km/hr and our 4-way flashers were going the entire time.
The winds were incredibly high and it was causing pure white-out conditions for a lot of the treck so we clenched our teeth, both watched the road and tried our best to stay out of the ditch.
We made it to Davidson some time later and we crawled Jerusalem (literally-- I don't kid!) into the first motel parking lot we saw. Thankfully it was right off the highway.
The parking lot was PACKED and so we rushed in to see if they had any rooms left.
They only had two left--both of which were smoking, but we didn't car.
We just needed a place to rest and sleep and gain our strength and de-stress so that we could carry on in the morning.
We walked across the the nearby bar and grill to grab a bite to eat, and then called it a night---just like all of the other highway drivers who were on the road.
Thank you Davidson for taking us in...we are safe and sound in Saskatoon as I write this blog and man are we glad!!!
Hello Prairie Winter's and thank you for making us welcome as we arrive home ;)
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