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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940?
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Posted by JK-NY on December 02, 2006 at 07:10:53 from (66.218.18.9):
In Reply to: Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? posted by Dave 2N on December 01, 2006 at 15:42:48:
I was a boy in 1966 and remember being snowed in here for a couple days . My dad had a Jeep Gladiator wagon(predecessor to wagoneer) and chains on all 4 wheels and got us plowed out and went to work , then spent a couple days hauling gas and fuel to all the State , county and town barns so they could get roads plowed. I also rmember 1993 when we got 4' here , about 3' in Syracuse in about 12-15 hrs. Worst thing about that was I had 30 driveways to plow and couldnt get at them till the roads got opened. Before my time but have heard about a bad storm around here in 1945 or 46 when people had to haul milk in cans with horses for a couple or 3 weeks before things got opened up.
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