It took nearly two hours for the fire department to pull us out of the Jeep, and in the end the Jeep had to stay where it was until the spring thaw. Apparently when the Jeep tumbled into the snow drift below the road, one fender and tire was still above the drift line. When a trucker saw this he called it in and the fire department came out to investigate the accident as soon as it was safe for them to go out in the storm.
Our rescue was a little anticlimactic, other than the strange look the fireman gave us as he stuck his head into our Jeep space. Was the smell of sex still in the air?
One of the first things the EMT’s did was that they made us strip out of our wet clothes and then covered us with a thick wool electric blankets. These blankets were wired with electric heaters wire right inside the fabric. I laid down in the gurney enjoying the warmth that was pushing into my muscle and bones. That and the hot coffee made me vow to never come up from under these warm covers again. I felt some movement and then felt Alex’s large hand wrap around mine. Turning my head to the side, I could see he also was under a blanket.
“I gotta get me an electric blanket just like this when we get home!” he laughed.
“Yes Mommy likes her boy stiff, just not frozen stiff!”