Last night, (Wednesday), my daughter dropped her partner off at work.
On the return journey, with her 4 year old daughter and 12 week old son in the car, she became trapped in a huge traffic jam caused by rising flash floods in the Seaforth area of Liverpool. She started to become anxious as the baby was due for a bottle. When the lorry driver on her left noticed her trying to calm the baby he told her to stick to his lorry and he would try to get her to the inner lane were she may be able to step out and walk him up and down. With the help of a policeman they managed to get her to a relatively safe place whereupon the policeman asked if he could do anything else. She produced a bottle of cooled boiled water and said she really needed to get it gently warmed up so she could mix up a feed for the baby. Taking the bottle he waded deeper into the water and disappeared into a pub further up the road reappearing a few minutes later with the warmed up bottle.
"Anything else I can do love?" he asked.
She said she wanted to contact me so I could come down and pick up the kids while she waited with the car but her mobile was flat. He took out a mobile, dialled my number and gave me precise details of where she was.
It took me over an hour to reach her and get the kids into our car and home to a hot bath and clean pyjamas. Daughter was eventually forced to abandon the car overnight and collect it today.
I phoned police HQ to pass on my thanks for what this officer did but in all the confusion didn't know his name or his badge number.
So just for once, instead of knocking these men and women, lets recognise some of the good stuff they do.
We certainly appreciate them.
On the return journey, with her 4 year old daughter and 12 week old son in the car, she became trapped in a huge traffic jam caused by rising flash floods in the Seaforth area of Liverpool. She started to become anxious as the baby was due for a bottle. When the lorry driver on her left noticed her trying to calm the baby he told her to stick to his lorry and he would try to get her to the inner lane were she may be able to step out and walk him up and down. With the help of a policeman they managed to get her to a relatively safe place whereupon the policeman asked if he could do anything else. She produced a bottle of cooled boiled water and said she really needed to get it gently warmed up so she could mix up a feed for the baby. Taking the bottle he waded deeper into the water and disappeared into a pub further up the road reappearing a few minutes later with the warmed up bottle.
"Anything else I can do love?" he asked.
She said she wanted to contact me so I could come down and pick up the kids while she waited with the car but her mobile was flat. He took out a mobile, dialled my number and gave me precise details of where she was.
It took me over an hour to reach her and get the kids into our car and home to a hot bath and clean pyjamas. Daughter was eventually forced to abandon the car overnight and collect it today.
I phoned police HQ to pass on my thanks for what this officer did but in all the confusion didn't know his name or his badge number.
So just for once, instead of knocking these men and women, lets recognise some of the good stuff they do.
We certainly appreciate them.
