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sl8

(16,245 posts)
Fri Apr 8, 2022, 05:17 AM Apr 2022

Mud 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 Radtke’s mud season disaster, she was still finding mud in her ears.

Radtke, host of VPR’s ‘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 Radtke’s 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 driver’s side window. She was freezing, unconscious, her mouth in the mud.

Radtke’s 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 OP
Worst mud season ever! voteearlyvoteoften Apr 2022 #1
What a story! secondwind Apr 2022 #2
I live in Vermont myself heckles65 Apr 2022 #3

secondwind

(16,903 posts)
2. What a story!
Fri Apr 8, 2022, 07:11 AM
Apr 2022

Wondering if some asshat on big wheels roared by, instead of stopping, making things worse.

heckles65

(604 posts)
3. I live in Vermont myself
Fri Apr 8, 2022, 09:52 AM
Apr 2022

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."

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