Recent snow storms have left many in Northern California stranded, with some running of out food and needed medicine. From makeshift shelters to airdropping hay for ranchers with starving cattle, extraodrinary mesaures are being taken to help.
Over the weekend, deputies responded to a call from a motorist who said she had gotten stuck and stranded on Spy Rock Road, but they weren't able to bring her to safety, according to Captain Gregory VanPatten, the public information officer for the sheriff’s office.
Sheriff’s officials said that the past few days have been busy with distress calls from people who were trapped as northern parts of county had been hit with significant amounts of snowfall within the last two weeks. Perhaps one of the most demonstrative acts of neighbors helping was on Feb. 23, when storms prompted the closure of Highway 101. Dozens of people found themselves stuck on the side of the road in Laytonville. family resource center, turned the site into an emergency shelter, bringing in strangers, including children, the elderly, and those with health conditions, for warmth, food, and a place to stay for two nights.
Laytonville Healthy Start in the community of Laytonville, Calif. was turned into an emergency shelter after motorists got stranded with the closure of Highway 101 in Mendocino County. "People woke up the next morning and started expressing their gratitude toward us. They said, ‘We’re so grateful you opened the doors.’ One woman said, ‘You don't understand what this meant to me and my family,’" Shields Spence shared. One family promised to return the kindness with a donation to the center.
Visitors were grateful for the generosity of Shields Spence and her husband, Roland Spence, and noted how incredible it was that they were able to provide the help with no advance notice and little to no outside support or resources. In neighboring Humboldt County, the road closures have led to desperate situations for ranchers who couldn't get food to their animals.
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