Travellers stranded amid B.C. snowfall rely on kindness of strangers to get home | 24CA News
With a whole lot of cancelled flights at Vancouver International Airport (YVR) after the area was blanketed with snow, some travellers have needed to depend on strangers to get residence.
A B.C. lady says she managed to make her means from YVR to her residence in Kelowna, after connecting with an individual who was driving again to the town within the Interior.
One trucker, in the meantime, has supplied rides to folks travelling from Alberta to B.C.
Mai Nguyen says she arrived at YVR from Japan on Sunday morning to seek out her connecting flight residence to Kelowna was cancelled and rebooked for Tuesday.
She was supplied a refund with no likelihood to rebook, she says, including that she tried making preparations with different airways and checked out taking a bus, however had no luck.
Desperate to get residence to her two-year-old daughter, she posted a message on a Lake Country neighborhood Facebook web page. She linked with a person who was travelling from Kelowna to Vancouver to drop off a buddy who had a connecting flight to YVR cancelled.
Nguyen says her husband was involved that she was accepting a trip from a stranger, however she felt it was a danger price taking to get again to her daughter.
Hundreds of passengers have had journey plans thrown into disarray as heavy snow on the Vancouver International Airport leads to delays and cancellations.
Nguyen says the person gave her and two others a trip again to Kelowna. She lastly arrived residence at 3 a.m. Wednesday.
Coming residence was emotional, she says. She needed to journey to Japan for a couple of days to take care of a private matter; previous to that, she had by no means been away from her daughter in a single day. The delay in Vancouver made their time aside even longer.
“The snow was really crazy … I’m very, very happy and lucky that I met a nice person, who drove me home and I can be with my family again,” Nguyen stated.
Truck driver Logan Long, in the meantime, has been providing transportation to folks seeking to get from Alberta to B.C.
Long says he has made affords on a Facebook web page devoted to ridesharing.
He says his itinerary features a cease to choose up a traveller stranded on the Edmonton airport, and one other in Calgary to choose up two puppies to be dropped off to their new residence.
From there, he’ll decide up two extra folks with stops in Revelstoke and Kelowna, earlier than heading all the way down to Vancouver.
Long, 49, says he already has plans to choose up folks for the trip again to Alberta.
“I hope that sometime they’ll remember that somebody stepped up for them and they’ll do the same for somebody else,” he stated Wednesday. “What do they call that — pay it forward?”
