I can relate to that, and also what a little car can do. We got hit with two Blizzards last winter, up here in western NY, not far from the Canadian border. The second, and biggest one hit just before Christmas.
We had picked up our daughter, who was away across the state for college, the week prior. The day before we drove out there to get her, the 10 year old battery failed in her little car. Triple A flat-bedded it to her roommates friend’s shop out there, and they put in a replacement.
Fast forward to Christmas morning. Both of our daughter’s, my wife and I had been trapped in our house for (3) days. The roads were closed due to the big blizzard.
All of our motor vehicles, except for our daughters little white car, were in the barn or the garage. There was 6 ft snowdrifts blocking the overhead doors. Even my 4wd Durango field car was trapped inside the barn.
It finally stopped snowing about 9:00 am Christmas morning, as the girls were unwrapping their presents next to the tree. A big town plow truck made it down our road around noon.
My plow tractor was accessible, under the side porch of our barn, but I had cheaped out on it’s replacement battery. It lacked the CCA’s to crank the engine, in the below zero temperature that day, even though the block heater had been on for a few hours.
Fortunately, I only had to shovel about 30 ft to get that little white car over to the plow tractor to jump it. It took me over an hour to do that. When I hooked up the jumper cables, the week old battery in that little car cranked that tractors Diesel engine over like a raped ape.
After I got the tractor started , I used it to clear our driveway and our neighbors in less time than it took me to shovel the path from the little car to it.
