Turtle Gardens Animal Rescue

The dogs and I got up at 7 am this morning to….. you guessed it – NO POWER!!! Again. It is hard to be positive with so much negativeity happening!  Dave finally got his van unstuck this morning by 10 am and drove to Houston to get some dog food – we used the last of it last night!! He came back with a cooked chicken for me – itsn’t that so sweet – sure beats flowers in thsi country!! He could only find two small bags so he came home with that and food for me – we are right out of staples. And of course no meat – all the freezer thawed out – 4 days with no power does that. It was a hard job before the storm but I don’t know if I can keep on – things were rough before but now with having to replace … see it is hard to stay upbeat. This round of power came on at 12.40 – it probably won’t last. Hydro says trees are falling on the lines behind them so they have to go back and do it over and over…. It is snowing in Smithers – Dave has to drive 1 and half hours to Smithers to buy dog food. How rural are we??   Hopefully he will make it back before more snow blocks the roads. It caught a lot of us unawares and not prepared. We have been complacent with the mild, dry winters we have been having. Sure shows you how dependent we are on electricity! We are hoping to market our cute Turtle Gardens bookmarks to help the dogs out. Check out our new TG Store – links on the side . 100% of proceeds go to the dogs for food, toys, medicine, and vet care – especially spay/neuters. Never lose your place in your book and help out homeless dogs!

©Turtle Gardens Animal Rescue Society. Have your pet spayed or neutered today.

Dave made it in at 11.30 this morning but he was stuck in the centre of the road! The conditions of the snow – rotten snow, like sand – it won’t pack when you drive on it. BC Hydro had a brand new 4 wheel drive truck and they had a very hard time on this road even with chains. Thanks to our neighbour for pulling our van home. Thank you to the staff of the Dennis Mackay constituency office for their very good communication concerning our local conditions. Power came on at 5 pm Monday evening – it went out Friday evening at 10 pm after flickering on and off for a couple of hours.  The snowplow arrived to clear our road at 8 pm tonight. We are almost back to normal – but now comes the fun part – digging ourselves out and accessing the damage to the freezers – all our meat and dog food for the winter. Methinks it was a very expensive snowstorm!!

This is taken from the front door Saturday morning so add two more feet of snow by the time it finally stiopped snowing late Sunday morning!!

Looking for their bones and they did find them all and dug them up!!

Storm in her favorite dog house – it is three feet high!

This is watering the dogs!! The pot with the dish is my pot roast with gardens carrots. The front pot is my camp coffee.

Just a little insight in the great snowstorm of 2006 at the Topley Zoo!

©Turtle Gardens Animal Rescue Society. Have your pet spayed or neutered today.

BC Hydro says the ETA for Yvette to get power is around 4pm today.  Lets all cross our fingers and hope she can join us all online here again.  I know I’m looking forward to all the snow pictures she’s been taking, especially the pictures of the puppies and dogs playing in the snow.

Good luck Yvette!!! Come on B.C. Hydro!!!

©Turtle Gardens Animal Rescue Society. Have your pet spayed or neutered today.

Yvette is still living like an old time pioneer, no water or power and coffee perked on the woodstove.  Still large pockets of no power in Granisle (eta for power tommorrow at 4pm), parts of smithers, burnlake and houston.

Yvette’s down to her last candle and the batteries are dying in her last flashlight   It snowed all day on and off, just enough to keep the ground white.  Snow is so high the dogs can look in the kitchen window, Luna takes particular joy in this new activity.

©Turtle Gardens Animal Rescue Society. Have your pet spayed or neutered today.

Talked with Yvette again and got an update from her.  She says:

It’s up to my waist.. let me put it this way “The dogs made paths, and when the labrador was walking in one of the path/tunnels all you could see was the tip of his tail”

Thanks to Richard, Glenn and their friends who drove two 4×4’s to bring Yvette a load of  wood for the woodstove. One 4×4 had a snow plow and the other pulled the first out when it got stuck.  Still no sign of either hydro or snow plows  

No water either, no hydro no pump for the well.  Yvette’s melting water on the woodstove for the dogs but had the forsight to fill the kettles for herself last night.  Morning coffee on the wood stove just doesn’t have the right flavor, tea is better.

The dogs are having a blast in that snow, they are tunneling in it, swimming in it, then they shoot up into the air.  The puppies love it!  Pictures are coming when power returns. 

Manged to find a news report online Huge power outages due to snow storm in Northern BC

©Turtle Gardens Animal Rescue Society. Have your pet spayed or neutered today.

©Turtle Gardens Animal Rescue Society. Have your pet spayed or neutered today.