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Posted by n8terry on December 09, 2006 at 15:46:55 from (172.147.232.48):
Lets see if any of you can top this I grew up on a farm in eastern SD. We had the blizzard stories from 1949, but this is from the winter of 1951/52. I got to wondering about how long we were unable to leave the farm because of blocked roads. I was a kid 11 years old, and I remembered that it was a long time but wasn't sure how long. I asked my cousins wife one day if she could remember, she said yes very well. She said that they got snowed in just before thanksgiving, and she didn't get to town till Easter services. How many wives are there that could handle that today? It turns out that they were newly weds, and I am sure my cousin didn't mind. They ended up having 7 children, one set was twins.
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