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Some years ago I lived next to a weird subdivision neighborhood, with the looping streets and what not. Not a gated community, but there was only one road in and out. One day a tree fell across that road and everybody that lived there was stuck most of the day.
That happened in the small town I grew up in once. It only blocked the street for an hour or two because the people who were trapped by it didn't wait around for the city to come take care of it; they busted out chainsaws and took care of it themselves.
Downed powerline was worse. Remember trying to go somewhere during a storm at night and I stop for a cop car in the middle of the cuts blocking the road and the cop comes up to the window and tells me to back up some and as I am about to ask why, the downed powerline I didnt see starts sparking and arcing all over the road super close to my car. "Oh shit, yeah I'm just gonna go the other way lol."
One reason I like living around rednecks. After the last hurricane, which didn't really touch our hood, dudes were patrolling the streets in pickups, hunting downed limbs.
There was a sandy patch on the way into our camp where cars would get stuck. One day I pulled up on 3 with 2 vehicles and a bunch of neighbors working on getting them out. Parked up the street and walked down, "OK. Who we getting out first?" I've been towed out myself on 4-5 occasions.
Coolest thing is that all those dirt roads are private. Somebody put their own money into upgrading and fixing the whole mess. There are at least 2 guys that cruise around on their little tractors and grade the streets now and again.
Of course they were. Have you ever used a chainsaw? They will take every opportunity to get that son of a bitch out.
Fun, aren't they?
They are!
My wife got me a little 12 in hatchet chainsaw and I chewed through every log that had been sitting on the property in like a week
Then I was bummed out. It was like finishing a good book.