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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940?
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Posted by Rustyj14 on December 01, 2006 at 18:39:16 from (72.77.13.173):
In Reply to: Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? posted by Brad in WI on December 01, 2006 at 12:54:36:
In 1950, near Pittsburgh, Pa., we had a fine blizzard! Snow drifted our roads shut-nothing moved! I barely made the ten miles home from work! We had just moved into our home we bought, didn't have many supplies, so i thought i'd go out after supper to buy milk, bread, etc, to tide us over until we went grocery shopping next day! WRONGO!! Fortunately, my boss had given me 2 chickens for Thanksgiving, which was that week, so we had a neighbor 2 doors down put them in his freezer for us. When we got up next morning, we couldn't see the car-all drifted over. The snow between us and our chickens was 3 ft. deep or more! Road drifted shut-couldn't go shopping! Then a young fellow back the road tried to shoot a deer, for food, but shot himself in the foot instead! So, his parents and their friends started digging out the road, so they could get him to the main road. When they got to my place, i got a snow shovel and went out to help. Its about 250 yards from my place to the main road which had been opened enough for a hi-lift to get the kid out to a Dr. One man was out there digging snow in a pair of dress shoes-said that was all he had! So, i said i'd lend him my left boot,(An Artic) he could wear it for a while, then put it on the other foot to warm it, too! So thats what he did. And i never changed mine over to the other side. Many years later, he mentioned that day-then he said he always wondered why i never switched my boot back and forth. I told him that foot never got cold. And, he had to ask--then i showed him the foot---its made of wood! You could have knocked him over with a feather But, we had a good laugh over it!
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