THE snow and ice which struck all parts of the country last Friday and Saturday at one time resulted in Sully being entirely cut off from Penarth and Barry by road.

Although the train service was still running on Saturday morning, there was no post or papers and the village shops soon ran out of all bread.

Housewives descended on the shops to buy flour, so that if worse weather followed, at least they would be able to bake their own bread.

Happily conditions improved slightly and it was possible later on to take the car out, though conditions were extremely “dicey” with icy patches on the main roads, and packed snow and a layer of ice on the side roads.

For the young people it was a blessing in disguise, however much their seniors cursed it. The small children revelled in snow fights and slides while some teenagers seized the chance to make some pocket money, and embarked on a door-to-door campaign with offers to clear drives and front pathways.

Many availed themselves thankfully of the offer.

Many Sully motorists had had to abandon cars on the Friday, and they were busy on the Saturday and Sunday reclaiming them from places where they had been forced to leave them.

It was a relief too that during the period of intense weather there were no cuts in the electricity.

TWO Sully people featured in the drama of the blizzard on Friday night when Dr Clare Jones, an anaesthetist at Sully Hospital, was trapped in the wreckage of her minicar after a 15-ton lorry load toppled over and partly crushed her vehicle.

The accident happened near Leckwith village on the Cardiff-Llandough road. Police, fire appliances, and the ambulance rushed to the scene of the accident, and a team of doctors stood by to give first aid.

Doctor Jones was rushed by ambulance to Cardiff Royal Infirmary where she was said to be comfortable.

Dr Jones, also an anaesthetist at Llandough Hospital, was given painkilling injections while the work of freeing her went on.

The driver of the nine-ton lorry, Mr Gareth John Williams, of Wordsworth Avenue, Penarth, was uninjured.