There was this one time at Minot where our crew got stuck at Echo-01 MAF for one of the worst blizzards they had had in years and years. Think we were stuck there for something like 6 or 7 days, but now sure as my memory has crashed and burnt. We were living in the grage as the MAF was under remod and was really tore up. You could heat the back of the MAF with electric heaters, but when you wanted to cook you had to turn off the heat or the circut breakers would pop. The heat up front was almost non existant and I could watch a glass of water slowly freeze in the office. However, the powers that be finally figgured we neeed to go home and had a chopper fly out a new cop crew so we could go home. Anywhoo we had done shiftchange and were about 1/2 way home in the chopper when chopper ops radioded us asking if a ART leader still had his little yellow box. Yep, sure enough the knucklehead still had his box in his gortex jacket pocket!!! Well, we had to turn around and fly back to the MAF to drop off this box. By then it was getting rather overcast and the chopper driver was flying rather low so he could see the roads and follow them back to Minot. Well, when we got almost withing visual distance a read light came on and all kinds of buzzers also went off. Seems the rotor blades were starting to ice up. Then as we were flying across Minot headding for base another red light and buzzer went off. Only this time it was a low fuel warning. The chopper pilot though we should be able to make it back to base so we pressed on instead of landing at the towns airport and refuelling as he though if we landed we'd be grounded for the day due to low visibility. Anywhoo we finally made it back to chopper ops and got to go home for a couple of days. I later found out the chopper had less than 10 gal of gas when we landed ACK!!!!