Some P.E.I. residents braved snowy roads and poor driving conditions to help their fellow Islanders during this weekend's winter storm.

Robin Croucher, a paramedic who's also captain of the Souris Fire Department, was out Sunday morning with three other firefighters checking in on people who had gotten stuck.

"We had a number of senior citizens that were snowed in and without power for a number of hours and getting quite cold." Croucher said.

"We very quickly got four of our members together at the fire department, myself, Peter Aitken, Donnie Aitken and Stevie Savoie ... And we started making our way from house to house and checking on the seniors and making sure they were OK, dug out their doorways and offered to take them down to our warming centre at the fire hall.

"Some came down and a few of them wanted to stay home. They're a hearty bunch and tough, and they want to hunker down. So we brought them hot beverages and whatnot."

With the help of some trucks and a plow operator, the crew helped almost 20 Souris residents. Among those Croucher assisted this Sunday were two workers who had been stranded at the AgraWest food processing facility since Friday night.

"They hadn't eaten anything of any substance. They had coffee and hot beverages and whatnot, but no extra food with them other than what they took for their shift. So I called my wife and she got together a little care package and I went back home," Croucher said.

"We're Maritimers, right? We're a pretty hardy bunch and, you know, they were they were in good spirits. As I say, they could have used a bit of a meal and we threw something together quick for them and dropped it off. It was really no big deal.

Croucher said conditions were "pretty miserable," but as firefighters, the crew was used to bad weather.

Jay Mackay also took to the streets to help out people who may have needed a lift during the storm.

On Saturday night, Mackay published a post on social media offering people a ride on his four-wheel drive, and stayed up until 2:30 a.m. ferrying them around.

Mackay had also been out following last week's storm, shoveling and getting Islanders home.

"Quite often, I just go [driving] for the fun of it," he said. "I just thought ... maybe I should be helping people get places."

Mackay said that though he wasn't able to get to everyone who asked for assistance, he did help a lot of people, including some nurses and even some new Canadians who'd never had to deal with this kind of storm before.

"I even had a call from a nurse at the QEH that a patient that was there ... she had been waiting for a cab to go home for 20 hours," he said,

"Some of the roads were would have been impossible for sure for even most four-wheel drive vehicles. I was just lucky to have what I had to get me where I needed to go."

Mackay said that while some people may say what he did was unsafe, he trusted his vehicle and his experience driving it.

Even though the roads were closed, a pair of nurses made it to work at the Prince County Hospital over the weekend by snowshoeing in.

Registered nurse Hannah Graham had borrowed some snowshoes from the library to try them out.

Then a co-worker said she was heading in for her shift by snowshoe, and Graham decided to do that as well.

Graham estimated the trip that's normally a six-minute drive took her an hour on foot.

She said it was important to get there to relieve those on the previous shift at the hospital.

"Patient care never stops. It's a 24-hour job regardless of the weather and I knew that my coworkers had been there all night working hard and that they needed a break," Graham said.

"It was very important to both of us to get there."

Graham said she would do it again if the conditions call for it, but she was grateful for a ride home from a co-worker after their 12-hour shift ended.