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Related: About this forumMud season nightmare: A VPR host was stranded for 7 hours on a rural road. She barely survived.
https://vtdigger.org/2022/04/07/mud-season-nightmare-a-vpr-host-was-stranded-for-seven-hours-on-a-rural-road-she-barely-survived/Mud season nightmare: A VPR host was stranded for 7 hours on a rural road. She barely survived.
By Ethan Weinstein
Apr 7 2022, 6:46 PM
Nearly three weeks after Linda Radtkes mud season disaster, she was still finding mud in her ears.
Radtke, host of VPRs Choral Hour, spent seven hours overnight stuck on a soupy dirt road in Middlesex. It was unseasonably warm that evening, but the temperature was falling fast. Less than a mile up the road lay Radtkes husband, Bob Jervis, sick in bed with a fever. Both of them requested towing service. It never arrived.
Finally, sometime after 4 in the morning, a tow truck driver discovered Radtke after receiving a call from state police about an abandoned vehicle. She hung inverted out the drivers side window. She was freezing, unconscious, her mouth in the mud.
Radtkes doing better now, undergoing rehabilitation at the Fanny Allen Campus of the University of Vermont Medical Center. She even expects to return home on Saturday far more quickly than anyone expected.
But the question remains: What exactly happened on the night of March 17?
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By Ethan Weinstein
Apr 7 2022, 6:46 PM
Nearly three weeks after Linda Radtkes mud season disaster, she was still finding mud in her ears.
Radtke, host of VPRs Choral Hour, spent seven hours overnight stuck on a soupy dirt road in Middlesex. It was unseasonably warm that evening, but the temperature was falling fast. Less than a mile up the road lay Radtkes husband, Bob Jervis, sick in bed with a fever. Both of them requested towing service. It never arrived.
Finally, sometime after 4 in the morning, a tow truck driver discovered Radtke after receiving a call from state police about an abandoned vehicle. She hung inverted out the drivers side window. She was freezing, unconscious, her mouth in the mud.
Radtkes doing better now, undergoing rehabilitation at the Fanny Allen Campus of the University of Vermont Medical Center. She even expects to return home on Saturday far more quickly than anyone expected.
But the question remains: What exactly happened on the night of March 17?
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Mud season nightmare: A VPR host was stranded for 7 hours on a rural road. She barely survived. (Original Post)
sl8
Apr 2022
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voteearlyvoteoften
(1,716 posts)1. Worst mud season ever!
They couldnt go out on the roads. So glad she survived.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)2. What a story!
Wondering if some asshat on big wheels roared by, instead of stopping, making things worse.
heckles65
(604 posts)3. I live in Vermont myself
Before going on a dirt road this time of year, look at it carefully to be sure your car won't get stuck. Never drive on an unfamiliar dirt road at night, and don't just take somebody else's word that "you'll be fine."