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among the occupants, and then lost count. More than 700 families were aided in emergencies at their homes. In Montgomery county, a maintenance crewman’s truck bogged down in knee-deep snow as he tried to deliver medicine to an isolated home. So he got out and walked, through fields and woodland. The round trip on foot took him three and one-half hours, but the medicine was delivered.
In the Fredericksburg area, 1 members of one family were! rescued from their drift-! caught auto, and spent the night in the Highway Department maintenance building. In Henry county, a two-yearold boy gulped down the pills his grandfather takes for a kidney ailment. A trail was plowed for the lad’s parents to take him to a doctor. ;i In Rockbridge county, the 1 father of three children hiked I hundreds of ya rds to a highway ] office, and said his family had 1 run out of food, the waterji lines in his home were frozen. [, lie was worried, he said, espec-i ially for the baby. ! Crews battled their way through the drifts and rescued the family, which moved temporarily into a Lexington motel. All across Virginia, secondary roads we re plowed ea rlier than would normally have been possible in order that ill persons could be taken to hospitals.
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