I know it was in the 70s, musta been the same blizzard, power was out over into the 3rd day.
The second day they sent those fairly new fangled things around, couple of snowmobiles came around to check on people.
Asked the folks if they needed anything.
The gravity flow wood boiler was heating the house, the windmill was working to feed the cistern to water the cattle, we could get a bucket of water from the basement cistern and heat on the wood stove for our water use.
We were fine.
The fellas on the snowmobiles looked kinda disappointed they couldn't do anything for us....
I remember seeing them come up the driveway, was 5+ foot drifts they were going over where the driveway would be.
A whole lot of power poles got broken down on that one, and the drifts were frightful from the winds that wouldn't let up.
The 70s were rough ones for blizzards around here, had a number of bad ones that decade.
Don't think we have been without power for more than 2-3 hours, and not even once a year at that, around here. The local REA coop does well.
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