We are having lots of snow fall here and I am thankful to be looking at it from inside the house rather than having to go out there and drive around in it. It is appropriate that I am currently reading the three little ones The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder when I put them to bed each night. I doubt I’ll ever experience a winter as severe as that one, although it seems to me that winters back when I was growing up were much more severe than they are now. I especially remember the winters of ‘77 through ‘79, when snow piled up so high on each side of the streets in our little town that we joked about how it looked like Moses parted the Red Sea.
by Laura Ingalls Wilder when I put them to bed each night. I doubt I’ll ever experience a winter as severe as that one, although it seems to me that winters back when I was growing up were much more severe than they are now. I especially remember the winters of ‘77 through ‘79, when snow piled up so high on each side of the streets in our little town that we joked about how it looked like Moses parted the Red Sea.-
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Steve, I agree–winters used to be worse. I went in the Army in Feb 1978 and I remember that one and the ones preceding it quite well. In late 77, it took over 4 days for the massive snowplows to get our suburban street plowed, and then we had a 12′ plow and wind-packed “drift” to dig through at the end of our driveway.
I missed the winter of 79-80 being in Germany but got plenty of pictures and stories of it from the folks back home.
I remember how hard it was to deliver newspapers during that time. Another thing I remember is that our entire backyard was covered so deep in snow that we were able to dig a whole series of snow tunnels throughout. I have a picture somewhere of a drift like the one you mention that blocked the road in front of our house for days.