Fury1630 wrote:Tony B wrote: one of the roads we went on just before the cafe was blocked with a fallen tree just as we left the cafe!
And there in lies a tale. I saw you coming back, decided to turn around so went fwds across the road, stopped, went backwards across the road, stopped & just as I engaged 1st again, I felt the car roll back a further inch & drop into a ditch up to the chassis, I radioed GB but he was away on his tyres, 1st gear did nothing, reverse just showered me & the car with mud.
So I called the fallen tree into the police as well as the other road blockage - me, then a nice man in a merc stopped & we considered ways of extricating my car. He suggested we could lift it, but a short test said that wasn't going to work, he said he had a tractor that would pull it out - but it wasn't road legal & the police were on their way, I'd got the tow rope round a front wishbone & we were going to try to pull the front sideways to lift one rear wheel back onto the road & then the other, when another couple turned up, so after a brief planning session they both lifted the rear wheel arches, while I (braced against a fence post) pushed on the roll bar & ........ it came out of the ditch!
I thanked them profusely & headed back to my Dad's finding another fallen tree blocking the A23 (I think) & another between Westerham & Farliegh where a curved tree had fallen right across the road, but because it was a curved tree the traffic was just driving under the arch it had made - quite surreal.
But yes, good route.
Glad you managed to get out of the ditch, hope the cars alright
