 So you can see a little bit better. Time is 7 a.m. snow on my hood. Can you see it? I might have to show you once the sun comes up there just to see. Just ahead of me there is the ferry. The ferry that's got to take me to Split Lake Manitoba from there I can take. I can go home. First in line there's a couple of people lined up behind me. I don't know if the ferry is going to be going today. The news is that it looks like some workers have gone past me and they're on the ferry right now getting it ready or getting it started or checking it out. The ferry is supposed to leave at 8 o'clock in 45 minutes. Well it's 7.15 now. Not 7 o'clock. Doubts because it's still snowing pretty heavy and it's supposed to snow all day. I've got no cell service here. I can't call home. It's not the worst case scenario. I can walk back. A little bit of a cell signal. I can text home. There's no cell service here and I'm stranded. So it's Tuesday today. October 25th. Plans. So I'll keep you updated on what's going on. I really hope the ferry is going to be running today. The snow is pretty heavy. I have my doubts but I did see three workers go on to the ferries. Maybe we'll still go. The project said if they do decide to go then I'll be ready. The guys working there. They didn't know it's not their call to make. They're just trying to get things ready in case they decide to go. I'll show you all the snow on my truck before I cleared it off. I'd say we didn't expect it. There goes another worker. Well the sun is up and there's a lineup of people behind me and these are the locals that would have a much better idea if the ferry is running than I would. So that's a good sign to me. Because yesterday I didn't know the ferry was cancelled but they all knew it was cancelled because they were listening to the radio station here. Well I went through every radio station I could find and I finally found their one radio station. 107.7 FM. And it plays my kind of music too. The old-fashioned twangy country. Like the old old-fashioned stuff. I love that stuff. My wife hates it. Anyway so this gets the music to listen to and I haven't heard anything about a ferry being cancelled yet. I'll get copyrighted if I show you anymore. Yeah I'm feeling better now than I was before. I cleaned off my hood and everything of snow. And I might load but there's still a chance we won't. I really hope so. I really want to get to it. But then again once I get to the other side of the lake I don't know what the weather's gonna be like there. Have they cleared the roads? It's a long remote highway or gravel road back to Thompson from there. And I really hope that they were on the ball and clearing it. Otherwise I'm not gonna be able to go anywhere anyway. But at least then I'll be past this step right. I'll be over the ferry. This is what life is like as a truck driver in Canada. They call it the Great White North for a reason. Half of the year is this and the other half of the year is mosquitoes and searing heat and sunburns. I've said it often before. Half the year the sun won't leave us alone. It burns us to a crisp. Everything is beautiful nice and green. It's hot and half the year is this. And the sun goes and hangs out with our brothers and sisters in Australia for six months. Now I don't mind sharing the sun with you guys down under alright. You guys are our sister country to us. I understand you need some sunshine too. You need your summer time but would you please not hold on to it so long this year? Last year it was a little bit long. You guys were a little bit greedy with the sun and the heat. I just humbly request that you know once your summers over can you please give that heat and sun back to us here in Canada. It would be much appreciated. This is just the beginning of winter. It's not even winter yet. This is still fall. What is it? October 25th. Winter starts December 21st. Oh no. I just realized that. It's still under two months until winter even begins. Love it. I love my country. I do. The pain is a snow but you know the pain is a snow. Yes the pain is the snow but it's better than rain in some parts. Rain gets y'all wet but snow as long as it stays off the road. I don't mind it. It looks nice right. It's beautiful. It makes the countryside beautiful. I just don't like it when it's on the road and in my driveway. I know it's pretty far away but they're they're shoveling shoveling off the deck on the ferry so that says to me that they're making room for us to park on there. Why else would you shovel it right. Someone needs to get these guys a skid steer. There's three guys on there shoveling that whole thing off by hand. I thought there was a skid steer coming. Oh no they're probably just getting a head start. Skid steer will be here soon. There's no skid steer. It's not coming. And they might need to get a tractor in here to clear all of this. Maybe they won't. I mean since it's downhill I'm not gonna get stuck. There's no way I'm gonna get back up the hill so once I'm down there we better go because I'm not getting back up here. Well it's a good thing I fished around for a radio station. The time is now nine o'clock a.m. and the announcement finally came over their radio here that the ferry this morning has been cancelled. They're gonna try again at 1.30 this afternoon. I think there's a good chance that we'll load at 1.30. Take a look. It's pretty clear right? Right? I would go. Sailor Josh would do it. Come on captain let's go. He's sitting in his captain's chair up there right now. He can probably see me sitting here looking at him looking at me looking at him. I think if it if it stays like this 1.30 makes sense. That gives them time to clear the deck because they're still shoveling there. Still they still haven't brought them a skid steer. I know that they've got to have a skid steer in town here right? Or on the reserve? They're shoveling it by hand and that's heavy snow. So what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna walk up the hill with my phone. I know I can get cell service up the hill around the corner just I can't get data but I can get texting and maybe a phone call in maybe. I know I texted from there yesterday to Brit just to let her know hey I'm okay everything's fine we're gonna try loading again at 1.30. I think it was a good chance. I feel like a little bit of a celebrity. Got an honorable mention on their radio station when they said that the ferry is gonna try boarding at 1.30. They made announcement that there's gonna be a big truck. That's me. There's a big truck on the ferry and it might be a tight squeeze. Old blue got a mention on the radio up here. Not by name but we knew it was they were talking about it. I guess these guys want to get on the ferry too. So it's gonna be them and me. There's quite a bit of snow. Such a remote community. It's amazing that people make a life up here you know. It'd be very difficult. Supplies can only get here when the ferry runs or in winter time on the winter roads. I just walked up here to grab the Wi-Fi signal. Everybody's okay. Everything's going good and by the looks of it the weather is pretty much cleared up. I think we're gonna board at 1.30. Walking back to the truck now just to be sure that I don't miss that. It's only like 10-9.30 right now. I just don't want to you know be uptown here if that's what you want to call it. Uptown when they're loading and then miss it. That'd be terrible. That's their school up there. About a kilometer or like three-quarters of a mile or so to the motel. There's also Wi-Fi at the restaurant right next door from what I heard but gotta go up there to get my cell signal so that I can check in with everybody. But like I was saying like I'm pretty confident we're gonna get out of here this afternoon. Thank God for that. Sweating. I'm actually really warm. My hands are cold because I didn't bring my gloves but the rest of me is just hot. I had a sweater and my winter jacket which I'm really glad I brought my winter stuff along. Have I said that already? That was a good idea. Came right out of here. It's now 10 40 a.m. and the captain of the ferry just came and talked to me here and updated me. They're going to try to leave at 1 p.m. as long as weather holds and doesn't get worse again. He says the way it looks right now will be going but he also you know noted that weather can change up here pretty quickly. He's not too worried about the wind as much. It's not that windy but he's worried about the snow and the visibility because there's some reefs and sandbars out in the lake that if you hit them and get hung up well then you're stuck out there for a long time and you got a drop anchor and you're stuck there until you get pulled out which could be you know over 24 hours. You don't want to risk that. Better to stay on shore than to get stuck out in the water. If you look out here now the weather is looking pretty decent right? My hopes are high. 10 40, 11 12, 2 1 half hours should be on the way as long as Mother Nature just calms down. Northern Manitoba is a wild place. We're just about ready to load the ferry. Oh they just got them out. I'm always stuck again. The ford got stuck so the dodge showed up. Then the dodge got stuck. Then we got the dodge unstuck. Now they're getting the ford unstuck. Don't hit me bud. I think they'll be able to get them out but he's got to back up a little bit now because he's getting pulled into me. Giver bud. Just don't pull them into me. Don't pull them into me. Don't pull them into me. Yeah! It started snowing pretty bad again. I was actually getting really worried that they were gonna cancel this ferry but got a whole bunch of like passenger like pedestrian passengers boarding now and this person just dropping someone off. I think they're turning around here anyways and they got stuck but everybody's out now. Everybody's out and nobody hit the truck. That's good. I'm a little worried there for a second. I'm pulling them closer and closer and closer to my front end here. I can't back up. I uphill behind me. There's no way I'm pushing my trailer uphill in this snow right now. I got one direction I can go. Down to the ferry. I don't really have a choice. I think they're gonna load me first is what the captain said last time I talked to him. I'll probably go right down the middle of that ferry there. My hopes are really high seeing all these pedestrians board right now. There's probably like five six seven of them. It's a very small ferry. Small community. My hopes are high. The time is now 12.54 p.m. They wanted to leave at one so it's all I got to do is make sure I don't get stuck here. Do you guys think it's clear? They cancelled it. They cancelled the ferry again. I'm less disappointed today. I'm more upset. We've got at least four to five miles visibility. No wind. Just a little snow falling and they cancelled the ferry. My whole week is shot. I know I'm not a sailor and I'm not the one in charge of this and maybe there's something that they see that I don't but they just spent all day clearing it. Oh if you're getting it ready to go. The weather in my opinion is just another light snowfall. Light winter day and they cancelled the ferry. Cousin a little snow. It's not my call to make and maybe there's more reasons behind it that I don't know but now I'm here until at least 8 a.m. tomorrow and if they don't leave at 8 a.m. tomorrow I'm not even gonna be out of here tomorrow yet because there's two ferries supposed to be going tomorrow and there's a fuel truck coming for the community here in the afternoon and there's no passengers, no one else allowed on the ferry with the fuel truck fuel truck only. So one ferry is out of the question tomorrow and that's in the afternoon but I guess if they don't leave here at 8 in the morning they're not gonna get over there to get the fuel truck to bring it here so there's that. This is really taking a big bite out of my wallet. Is they gonna big bite out of my wallet this week? That is what it is. Upset, disappointed. I accepted this load up here. I don't know why I did. I don't think I will again. I guess it's a fair weather ferry. It only you know it only goes out on absolute perfect pristine weather days. I mean I can see clear across the lake from here. I don't know what the reason is. Maybe the equipment broke? That would make more sense to me. I'd say that's trucking but this has nothing to do with trucking. Relying on a boat so that I can get to the other shore because there's no road leading here. We're not on an island. There's just they the government hasn't built a road to this community. They've been asking for one for decades. There's no road here. They rely on a boat that won't even bring them to the other shore if a few snowflakes are falling. That is remote and that would be hard to make life work with that. There's no hospital here from what I could see either. What if someone had to get to the other shore for medical care? I guess you'd airlift them and just fly them out of here then I guess. That'd be the answer to that. Still stranded. I'm just gonna stay in my truck and wait a little while before I check in at home. I told my check-in this afternoon and tell them what's going on. The best thing to do when you're in a bad mood is don't spread it. Don't put other people in a bad mood. Today's vlog has mostly just been me talking. I got to show you around the community here a little bit but the captain just came and talked to me here. Filled me in on what's going on and yeah the weather is much worse on the other side so that makes sense. They have a contact over there that he calls. Just stays in contact with to see how it is. Yeah we can see pretty far here but apparently on that side it's really bad. So they all made the call and they're the professionals. They're the sailors not me. Still doesn't make it any less disappointing. The good news is though that apparently there's a cell booster in the ferry that I didn't know about and that if I walk up close to it I can actually grab a cell signal and call home. I can just walk down here. I don't have to walk like a kilometer all the way up to the motel next time. I'll wait a little bit and I'll call home and call in to work send an email let them know. Hey still stranded still stranded and hopefully tomorrow hopefully tomorrow we'll get across. And then once we're on that side I'm talking to the captain as well. He says I'm gonna have to call into our road network which is 511. You call 511 and you give him the road 280 and I gotta ask him to see if that road's even been cleared is it passable. So I might get to the other side of the lake and still not be able to go anywhere because that road hasn't been cleared yet. I feel like it was a mistake accepting this load. I feel like it's not even a funny I'm laughing because it's so such a oh it's ruined my whole week. I'm lucky I had a really good beginning of this month so that'll balance it out but that was supposed to make this month really good. Now this month is just gonna be because I lost a whole week of work here and I'm not even at home like it's one thing if you take time off and you're at home. This is time off in a remote community with no cell signal and no data and nowhere to go. I can't move the truck because I can't get up the hill from here so like I said before I only got one direction I can only go downhill here onto the ferry and I can't go so hopefully tomorrow morning they want to leave at 8 a.m. so hopefully around 7 30 they'll be loading us up captain promised that I'll be the first to board. I have a visitor here oh oh he flew away already big bird just landed on my mirror so yeah time is now 2.22 and I'll keep you updated there's nothing more to update you on update you on today be sleeping right here again tonight the joys of the job but it is an experience I'll always remember and learn from and hey government of Manitoba let's build them a road shall we come on dragging your feet for decades build them a road already this ferry thing isn't working out still storming out there but the cell signal the cell booster on the ferries working at least I can walk all the way down there and grab a cell signal call home instead of walking all the way over there so that does work tested that out I hope this storm lets up overnight they want to load at or leave here at 8 a.m. tomorrow and if we don't leave then hopefully we'll leave in the afternoon the forecast says it's supposed to be clear tomorrow but it's still storming like crazy right now but what can you do stranded in northern Manitoba at least we got food we're safe we're warm there's lots of fuel and yeah I don't have to idle my truck very much because I got a bunk heater an engine heater can leave the truck off I've idling now just because I'm putting my vlog together using my computer here and stuff don't want to drain the batteries other than that we'll see you tomorrow thanks for hanging out with me today in York factory first nation Manitoba it was fun nice little community up here and I'll be right here in the morning we'll see you then don't forget to subscribe I need your help getting out of here somebody make the weather get better make the snow go away