The weekend's winter snow storm kept Owen Sound Police Service busy.
In a statement released Monday morning, police said they were called to help over a dozen drivers on Sunday alone, though there were only a few collisions.
Police also helped citizens either trapped by snow in their homes or who became disoriented in the storm.
On Sunday, just after 9:00 a.m. police said they were called to a home on 8th Street East near 4th Avenue East for a report of a person yelling from within his residence. When officers arrived, police said they were told by a 55-year-old man he had a disability and was unable to shovel the snow from his front door. Officers cleared the snow and salted the man's steps.
Officers were also sent out to check the well-being of people feeling distressed about the weather. That included a 52-year-old woman who felt trapped in her home because of the pile-up of snow. Officers shoveled some of the heavy snow to ease the woman's anxiety.
Just before 2:30 p.m., officers were called to check on a woman on 10th Street West near 2nd Avenue West. The statement said when officers arrived, the woman was found unresponsive in a snowbank. The officer was reportedly able to pick the woman up and get her into a police cruiser to warm up until paramedics arrived. She was suffering hypothermia and taken to hospital for treatment.
Around 5 p.m officers got a call about a man sitting in a field of snow calling for help. The statement said officers walked 100 metres through snow more than a metre deep in places and found a 27-year-old American. The man had been sitting for 40 minutes and told police he was unable to walk on his own. He had taken the field as a short cut to his destination. Police called the Owen Sound Fire Department and Grey County Paramedics for help who took the man to hospital.
Police thanked the public for their timely calls from concerned community members, and said without the help the outcomes in some cases would have been significantly worse or possibly fatal.