It came out of the northwest. It blew all day and all night. By mid-afternoon the next day four foot high drifts blocked our lightly-traveled country road. Not only was the snow deep, but it had been hardened to near concrete consistency by sustained 45 mph winds. The depth and hardness of the snow made it impossible for the township plow to bust through the drifts so we had to wait for the county rotary plow. We were blocked in for three weeks.
SURVIVAL BOMBS As a typical farm family of the time, we weren’t exactly in danger of starving. There were plenty of canned vegetables, sauces, eggs, potatoes, milk , cream and home-churned butter. But ,there were only a few packages of meat —pork. We had brought home only enough from the locker plant for a week. It was kept our back porch entry way that doubled as a walk-in freezer in those constant subzero winters. …show more content…
The lighter things dad had carried back in an old grain sack when he made a frigid, grueling walk to town over the snow banks, but, the larger things, like a 50 pound bag of flour and the 10 lb. bag of sugar, were too heavy. No flour or sugar meant no bread, no donuts , no cookies , no pancakes, no syrup and worst of all no
SURVIVAL BOMBS As a typical farm family of the time, we weren’t exactly in danger of starving. There were plenty of canned vegetables, sauces, eggs, potatoes, milk , cream and home-churned butter. But ,there were only a few packages of meat —pork. We had brought home only enough from the locker plant for a week. It was kept our back porch entry way that doubled as a walk-in freezer in those constant subzero winters. …show more content…
The lighter things dad had carried back in an old grain sack when he made a frigid, grueling walk to town over the snow banks, but, the larger things, like a 50 pound bag of flour and the 10 lb. bag of sugar, were too heavy. No flour or sugar meant no bread, no donuts , no cookies , no pancakes, no syrup and worst of all no