Posted by Goose on February 21, 2013 at 08:08:40 from (70.197.197.247):
On another thread about winter storms, people described the panic over a storm nowadays.
I was born in 1934 on a then remote farm. (Now I-80 goes past a mile away).
We didn't have electricity until 1946. We heated the house with wood and coal, Mom cooked with wood, we used kerosene lamps in the house, when we did chores in the dark we carried a kerosene lantern, and we got our water from a hand pump well 50' from the house. Cattle were watered with a windmill.
Between canned meat and other canned goods, home cured hams in the cellar, plus a supply of flour, etc., if we had to we could go a month or more without buying groceries.
So if we were snowed in for a few days life really didn't change much.
It's a whole different ball game nowadays, but I don't think I'd want to go back.
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