I want to take this opportunity to thank the wonderful young men who came to this old women’s (I’m in my 80s) rescue during the 2013 blizzard.

As a precaution, my niece, Judy Sittnick, bless her, insisted I stay with her in East Haven during the storm in case I lost power. When she took me to my Evergreen Avenue home in Hamden after the storm, we realized we had to climb through hip deep snow. As we were struggling, four Quinnipiac University students in a white SUV stopped and helped me into my house. They were wonderful.

On Monday after the storm, my niece and her friend Ray Monaco were trying to remove big ice chunks that the town trucks once again deposited at the end of my driveway, when a woman and four young men from Woodbridge came by and voluntarily helped to remove that very heavy snow and ice.

I didn’t get the names of these good Samaritans but I want them to know I am truly grateful!

Laura Carlson 

Hamden