Posted by K Effective on March 15, 2017 at 20:06:19 from (162.235.236.141):
In Reply to: Blizzard of 1978 posted by Geo-TH,In on March 15, 2017 at 16:03:28:
We got pounded by lake effect followed by high winds in 78. I still have the "book" I created for an elementary school class by pasting newspaper stories into the book, with the subject of the storms. I think we missed seven or eight straight days of school. We created some fantastic tunnels through the drifts, until one neighborhood mom caught us, and feared for all our lives.
A friend's mother had lived in rural South Dakota in the 50's, she showed me a book published about the Blizzard on the Rosebush(?) she had experienced firsthand. I want to say 1952? The government brought in bulldozers to make access, they just plowed straight lines, right through fences and farm yards, from small town to small town. Created all kinds of trouble for livestock farmers all year.
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