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Goose

Goose

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On another thread about winter storms, people described the panic over a storm nowadays.

I was born in 1934 on a then remote farm. (Now I-80 goes past a mile away).

We didn't have electricity until 1946. We heated the house with wood and coal, Mom cooked with wood, we used kerosene lamps in the house, when we did chores in the dark we carried a kerosene lantern, and we got our water from a hand pump well 50' from the house. Cattle were watered with a windmill.

Between canned meat and other canned goods, home cured hams in the cellar, plus a supply of flour, etc., if we had to we could go a month or more without buying groceries.

So if we were snowed in for a few days life really didn't change much.

It's a whole different ball game nowadays, but I don't think I'd want to go back.
 
I would imagine that using kerosene lanterns to get around in a barn ,there were a lot of barn fires back then. A lot of hay in there for feed and bedding. I guess you had to be extra cautious.
 
We buy flour and rolled oats and dried beans in 50 pound bags and can and freeze a fair bit of food. We have enough food for months and and enough firewood to last till October but if we lost electricity we wouldn't be able to run the boiler fan and pumps. As long as the power stays on we're fine.
Zach
 
We see that panic here. Most often folks wait till the weather kicks in before rushing out to buy whatever. It's a MN thing I think. The "natives" gotta have an excuse to go out in it, it being blizzards, heavy snow or sub zero temps, so that they can brag to each other about it later. One hot item in weater events is pizza, go figure.

Rick
 
Lotsa folks have it too easy,
They think 6" of snow is a blizzard.
(for me it is 12" and up is a blizzard)
 
(quoted from post at 09:42:07 02/21/13) Lotsa folks have it too easy,
They think 6" of snow is a blizzard.
(for me it is 12" and up is a blizzard)
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LOL you live on the wrong side on MN. We get ground blizzards over here where we catch the winds out of ND. We had a 16" snow last week, not a blizzard, didn't get the winds with it. Then this Monday we had a ground blizzard. Lucky for us we had a few days of warm weather and the snow had a good crust or it could have been a lot worse.

Rick
 
Mom went to school in a one room school house. Even though they were very rural they got a school bus pretty early on. One winter the weather went bad. The bus loaded up all of the kids from school to go home but didn't get very far. The bus ended up stuck on a country road. The bus full of kids (probably 20-25) and the driver walked to the nearest farmhouse where they stayed for three days.

Can you imagine 20 people showing up at your door in the middle of a storm? I know I don't have enough here to feed than many folks for three days. We could start butchering things I suppose. I just can't fathom that.

Mom couldn't remember whether there was a phone at the house. I bet there were some worried folks. They probably just figured that everyone was at the school. Seems folks didn't freak out so easy then.

If you hear a knock on the door today you better sharpen you but butchering knives.
 
LOL with the wife canning everything in sight in the summer and me butchering every fall, and with her wining and my home brewing, yea we could feed 20 people for a few days!

Rick
 
I get paid once a month so we shop once a month. Did you know that you can freeze milk for about two months without any difference in the taste or quality.
Walt
 
I remember when my older brothers left home to work in the steel mill in Cleveland. A few weeks later a package arrived, addressed to my Dad. When he opened it, it was a brand new red single mantle Coleman lantern. Dad grinned from ear to ear. Sure beat that old kerosine lantern for light output! We were running with the big dogs, or so we thought.
 
To me a blizzard is LOTS of snow coupled with LOTS of wind. When it snows and blows at the same time around here, we get impressive drifts.

Usually we don"t have too much trouble from snowstorms. If enough comes at once, I have to plow out the driveway and also plow about a quarter mile of our graveled road, since the main roads get plowed first by the folks paid to do that job. Usually we can get out within a couple of hours.

But when it snows and blows, the drifts can make it real tough. Those are also the conditions that cause the power to go out. I have seen drifts 10 feet tall blocking our road. No way will my equipment deal with something that large.

We seldom get blizzards here. It usually is fairly calm while it is snowing and usually we don"t get more than a few inches at one time. Not too bad!
 
When you've lived through a few "white out" blizzards like they have in ND, when you can't see 3 feet in front of you, then you will know what a blizzard is.

When us kids were small, Dad tied a rope from the house to the barn if we went to help with chores. Sometimes I just grabbed the collar on the German Shepherd and he led me to the house or barn so I didn't get lost and freeze to death.
 
Hey, oldtanker, in No.Dak there is a joke about our wind. "Montana blows and Minnesota sucks and we are caught in between" That's a joke son! Len
 
I always have lots of bottled water, heat with wood and it"s not like the frozen food is going to spoil. I also fail to see what depth of snow has to do with whether or not a storm should be considered a blizzard. Strong winds and lots of snow being blown around is what a blizzard is.
 
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