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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940?
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Posted by 2t2@ia on December 01, 2006 at 20:55:17 from (216.51.141.236):
In Reply to: Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? posted by BarryfromIA on December 01, 2006 at 19:51:42:
Your description of the Jan 10 blizzard of 1975 is very accurate. I am in NW Iowa also. We lost power but I had set up just before the storm our JD A with a 4000W belt driven generator. As soon as the visibility got a little better, I started it, and we had power. We did not lose livestock, but many did. My father was near death in a nursing home, and we kept track by phone (underground lines) The nursing staff was stuck there without relief for a day or two. Now, during the Armistice Day blizzard of 1940 I was 11 years old. It was an unexpected blizzard, and some had not yet put antifeeeze in their cars, and the sudden temp drops froze them. One good thing, we had no running water, had just recently been hooked up for electricity, so we still had lamps, coal and wood stoves, fruit, meat and vegetables canned the previous summer and cured pork, so food was no problem. I do not want to go through another blizzard like those two.
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