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Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940?

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Turke Bros. Far

12-01-2006 12:21:56

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This took place way before I was born. In my local paper they shared an article of the fierce winds associated with this storm. They went on to mention that in the midwest regions of our nation the temperature changed from the 70s to below 0 in twelve hours. Farmers could not get the cattle in shelter fast enough, the froze in the feilds standing. I never expirienced anything like that! I was curious if any of you guys remember this storm or seen anything like that. To read the complete article go to www.thetimesherald.com, go to far right hand top of the sceen and search the archives for November 12, 2006, about the Armistice Day Blizzard. Please drop me a post. Stay warm ! Dturke

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M nut

12-02-2006 07:13:33

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Turke Bros. Farms, 12-01-2006 12:21:56

way before my time, but my grandmother remembers it well. She was 1o years old in lived in Worthington, MN at the time. Her father was away, so her mother sent her and her 12 year old brother out to get the horses and cattle into the barn. Got the horses, but had to climb up on the backs of two and ride them home. Horses found the way, but grandma says she couldn't see three feet in front of her. Never got to the cattle. Found all the cattle frozen to death after the storm ended.

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toomanycases

12-01-2006 21:17:23

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Turke Bros. Farms, 12-01-2006 12:21:56

I remember a winter storm in 1940, was 8 at the time. Roads were blocked, milk truck could not pick up the cans for a couple of days. All the men were out shoveling with scoop shovels & there were a couple of teams of horses, each pulling a dump scoop. I don't remeber the correct name for it, but they would clear two paths & the men would shovel out the center. This was in Northest Illinois. They cleared the low areas that drifted in. Was about 4-5 miles to Chemung for the milk truck. Snow was about 3-4 feet deep, more so in the drifts & miserably cold even in the barn. could see your breath & hands got numb doing the milking. We poured out a lot of milk on the ground. Left there after serving in the Marines & came to Calif. Chuck

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730virgil

12-01-2006 20:59:46

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Turke Bros. Farms, 12-01-2006 12:21:56

i don't but remember dad talking about grandpa started car and let it run all night so grandpa could take dad to meet train to go to army .

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kyplowboy

12-01-2006 20:19:15

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Turke Bros. Farms, 12-01-2006 12:21:56

I was born in the blizzard of 1978, but have heard my grandmother tell about a bad one in the forties, not sure which one. They were pretty far back off the path (same place I live now). Her dad trucked livestock and was not home. She was home with her mom and two younger brothers for over a week. They had to walk on the top rail of the the fence from the house to the barn. Said it did not take long to learn it was better to make a few more trips and not get the milk bucket too full. I guess she tried to walk on the fence with a full bucket and ended up wearing it. She said they made it alot better than some, for some reason they had all the critters up in the same barn. Had milk, eggs, and a frier every day.

Must have been some storm.

Dave

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Gary from Muleshoe

12-01-2006 19:32:39

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Turke Bros. Farms, 12-01-2006 12:21:56

I am not old enough for this one but I was in New Jersey during the blizzard of 96. I am originally from Kansas and that is the most snow I ever recall in my lifetime. Was glad i was only there for 45 days for the USAF.

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Mr. Bill No. Mn.

12-01-2006 19:01:30

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Turke Bros. Farms, 12-01-2006 12:21:56

That must have been the Armistice (sp)Day storm that year. I remember it well. A Grey Hound bus got stuck in front of our farm in central Minn. We had 42 people in our farm house for four days. Remember my dad had to slaughter a milk cow so we would have enough food to feed everyone. Didn"t have anything big enough to plow with so was all hand work. Driveway was about 200 ft long. Snow was a good three and a half feet deep. All highways were closed for at least three days.

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NEsota

12-01-2006 18:11:58

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Turke Bros. Farms, 12-01-2006 12:21:56

ShepFL, The Street in the picture you posted was/is Excelsior Boulevard in Minneapolis and is about a mile from me. The arched bridge is a foot-golf cart crossing for the golf course, Mininekahda, which lays on both sides of the snowbound cars. A man who I know, now in his eighties, and his buddies got out of high-school early that day because of the snow, they drove- pushed about the last car through before the Street was closed.

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JOHN HARMON

12-01-2006 17:19:32

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Turke Bros. Farms, 12-01-2006 12:21:56

I never heard of the 1940 Blizzard but remember the one in 1948-49. I was three years old in 1940 and don't recall much of my life at that age. in 1949 the Radio stories of Cattle not being able to be fed and Hay shortages and people freezing to Death are all vivid in my Memory. Winter of 1949 I was 12 years old and we were Dairy Farmers in N C ILL. and my Dad was Miserable and depressed all the time about the conditions he had to work in and the suffering of our Animals.I went thru the same thing many times on my own Dairy Farm only not so drastic as 1949 was. I live here in AZ. now and hate Snow so much I turn my Head when they show it on TV. so I won't have to look at the Snowy Scenes that others think are so beautiful.

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ShepFL

12-01-2006 17:01:50

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Turke Bros. Farms, 12-01-2006 12:21:56

A bit before my time but it peaked my curiosity. See the links for more info.

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Michael Soldan

12-01-2006 16:02:04

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Turke Bros. Farms, 12-01-2006 12:21:56

Welp, I don't but my Dad always talked about 1940 here in southern Ontario. he said that the road in front of our farm was blocked for 6 weeks and no one could pass down it unless walking or with a horse and cutter. The county finally got a huge Catepillar with a snow V on front and it took them several days but they finally poked a hole through and a few cars got by. He said the road filled in since there wre already high banks and it was about 12'deep level across. I always remember him talking about the winter in 1940...Mike in Exeter Ontario

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Dave 2N

12-01-2006 15:42:48

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Turke Bros. Farms, 12-01-2006 12:21:56

Anyone from the Mohawk Valley of New York State? Remember the Blizzard of 1966? January, I believe it was?

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JK-NY

12-02-2006 07:10:53

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Dave 2N, 12-01-2006 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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MN Bob

12-01-2006 13:59:13

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Turke Bros. Farms, 12-01-2006 12:21:56

Winter of 48/49- lived on Blewitt Pass in Washington. Had tunnels to the wood pile and outhouse, Walked on top of snow out 2nd floor window to barn. There were more elk and deer in the corral area than cattle and horses. Dad got a payment from the state, (DNR?) for some hay. Bob

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the tractor vet

12-01-2006 13:38:04

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Turke Bros. Farms, 12-01-2006 12:21:56

No , but i rember the 1950 one and the winters of 63-64-65-71-73-75-77-78- 93 and anything else was just a dusting asfar as i am concernded .

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Midwest redneck

12-01-2006 13:33:16

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Turke Bros. Farms, 12-01-2006 12:21:56

I was born in 1969 and I remember the blizzard of 1977, school was closed for over a week if I remember right, in the south part of Mich. some people pulled over to the side of the road to take a break and got buried in the snow, over the top of their cars.

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jhill52

12-01-2006 19:16:46

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Midwest redneck, 12-01-2006 13:33:16

I remember the blizzard of 78 in MI. I was staying with my grandmother and had my snowmobile along so i could get to town for supplies. Some roads never got open for 2 wks.

Jerry

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Joe in MN

12-01-2006 13:18:31

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Turke Bros. Farms, 12-01-2006 12:21:56

I was only one year old, but I hear the older folks talk about it all the time, they said, the duck hunters died by the dozens cause thay were hunting in T-shirts in 70 degree weather, and then at Noon -- the temps droped to zero (in just a few minutes) and you couldn't see two feet in front of you cause of the snow.. Now that takes some doing ! ! !

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GaryKee

12-01-2006 13:18:04

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Turke Bros. Farms, 12-01-2006 12:21:56

I grew up in Kansas, and had never heard of the Armistice day storm. When we moved to Iowa, I learned about it. It is infamous around here. Have read stories about hunters that were in duck blind boats on the Mississippi river that were caught in the storm.

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HAPPY DEERE

12-01-2006 12:56:47

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Turke Bros. Farms, 12-01-2006 12:21:56

my grandpa was running a gravel pit back then and had about a dozen peices of mahinery and no good radiators come spring he said he shut his crane off and went in tot ake a nap as he worked all the night before and came back abouit 10 hours later to a busted block. i just lost a barn roof door and two tractors sheet metal but that aint bad i quess atleast me and my family was safe

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JMS/MN

12-01-2006 12:52:42

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Turke Bros. Farms, 12-01-2006 12:21:56

Armistice Day blizzard of 1940- bit before my time but folks often talked about it- extreme change in weather in a few hours- trains stuck in local towns, etc. I've seen pictures of crews shoveling them out- caught everyone by surprise, totally unprepared.

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Allan In NE

12-01-2006 12:31:04

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Turke Bros. Farms, 12-01-2006 12:21:56

1940 or 1949?

The '49 blizzard was one on the meanest on record paralyzing the whole midsection of the continent. 'Member that one well! :>(

There was also one back in the 1800s too; can't remember the date on that one tho.

Actually, never heard of a blizzard of 1940.

Allan

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Coloken

12-01-2006 14:29:27

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Allan In NE, 12-01-2006 12:31:04

Pretty sure that one was in 1886, cause my dad was born in it in Iowa. Said doctor came over fences for drifts. Heard it ended the cattle business in Colo...then sheep took over for a few years.

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Bill in Colo

12-02-2006 19:29:13

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Coloken, 12-01-2006 14:29:27

1886 was the end of the English cattle barons in our part of the state,the old timers told me that they were still skinning cattle in late May.( one family told me the spring before the storm they branded 1300 calves and the next barely 200)
All my friends tell me 1949 was lots of snow 3 to four feet as low as 6000ft elevation, as luck would have it that was the last winter I spent in California until college

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Coloken

12-01-2006 14:24:43

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Allan In NE, 12-01-2006 12:31:04

1949... I WAS THERE. Some where there is a picture of a Allis cat-dozer parked beside (yes, beside) a REA power tranformer on top of a drift. New Ramer..driver was "Pop" Baker of Haxton.

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No tools

12-01-2006 12:39:49

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Allan In NE, 12-01-2006 12:31:04

Allan
Sat i've heard mother and farther talk about
1950 winter.
Any clues?? they talk like lots blowing snow??.
Bill
I got to catch ole yeller.

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Rustyfarmall

12-01-2006 12:38:51

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Allan In NE, 12-01-2006 12:31:04

My mother still talks about the winter of '36. She says you could open the window of the second floor bedroom and just step out onto the snow.

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John (MO)

12-01-2006 12:51:41

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Rustyfarmall, 12-01-2006 12:38:51

A bathroom in the house? In 1936? What was she, a Rockafeller?

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Hugh MacKay

12-01-2006 13:20:28

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to John (MO), 12-01-2006 12:51:41

John: My grandparents had a bathroom in 1932, full 3 years before electricity. Water came to the house via graviety from up on a hill. My grandfather had seen these in the USA in the 1920s. Determined he was not going to sit in the little shack out bank in the heat of summer or cold of winter he built a bathroom.

He dug hole, put in a septic tank of poured concrete. The tank was 12' deep and 12' in diameter, along with just as large weeping bed. that system was in use, never opened anywhere for 62 years. The house burned and the county wouldn't let the new owner couple the new house to that system. Probably just as well, I built a new milking parlor and milk room on top of the old septic tank in 1972. An old timer who worked on the construction in 1932, pointed this out to me in 1977. Apparently my mother and a sister were reckless teenagers in 32 and didn't pay much attention to septic details.

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Rustyfarmall

12-01-2006 12:54:53

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to John (MO), 12-01-2006 12:51:41

B E D room. As in Bedroom. Bathroom was down a path out behind.

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John (MO)

12-01-2006 13:03:32

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Rustyfarmall, 12-01-2006 12:54:53

Ah he11, obviously I need new glasses.

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Rustyfarmall

12-01-2006 13:07:47

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to John (MO), 12-01-2006 13:03:32

I'm guessin that maybe you are just blind from lookin at all that snow?

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Brad in WI

12-01-2006 12:54:36

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to John (MO), 12-01-2006 12:51:41

bathroom? I think that he may have said bedroom Maybe in some eyes they may be the same ;)

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Rustyj14

12-01-2006 18:39:16

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Brad in WI, 12-01-2006 12:54:36

In 1950, near Pittsburgh, Pa., we had a fine blizzard! Snow drifted our roads shut-nothing moved! I barely made the ten miles home from work! We had just moved into our home we bought, didn't have many supplies, so i thought i'd go out after supper to buy milk, bread, etc, to tide us over until we went grocery shopping next day! WRONGO!! Fortunately, my boss had given me 2 chickens for Thanksgiving, which was that week, so we had a neighbor 2 doors down put them in his freezer for us. When we got up next morning, we couldn't see the car-all drifted over. The snow between us and our chickens was 3 ft. deep or more! Road drifted shut-couldn't go shopping! Then a young fellow back the road tried to shoot a deer, for food, but shot himself in the foot instead! So, his parents and their friends started digging out the road, so they could get him to the main road. When they got to my place, i got a snow shovel and went out to help. Its about 250 yards from my place to the main road which had been opened enough for a hi-lift to get the kid out to a Dr. One man was out there digging snow in a pair of dress shoes-said that was all he had! So, i said i'd lend him my left boot,(An Artic) he could wear it for a while, then put it on the other foot to warm it, too! So thats what he did. And i never changed mine over to the other side. Many years later, he mentioned that day-then he said he always wondered why i never switched my boot back and forth. I told him that foot never got cold. And, he had to ask--then i showed him the foot---its made of wood! You could have knocked him over with a feather But, we had a good laugh over it!

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BarryfromIA

12-01-2006 19:51:42

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to Rustyj14, 12-01-2006 18:39:16

That was about 3years before my time.I think some of the incidents I have heard of are probably from 1940. Here in north west Iowa we had March of 1962. It snowed every week end for 4 weeks. last one plugged every road with a northwest wind. The blizzard of 1975 went from about 60 degrees in the morning to well below zero by late night. A lot of vehicles just stalled because of the huge presure change along with high winds that forced snow inside electrical systems. Also made huge drifts. Made beleiver out of me to check the weather forcast.

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2t2@ia

12-01-2006 20:55:17

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Re: Does anyone remember the blizzard of 1940? in reply to BarryfromIA, 12-01-2006 19:51:42

Your description of the Jan 10 blizzard of 1975 is very accurate. I am in NW Iowa also. We lost power but I had set up just before the storm our JD A with a 4000W belt driven generator. As soon as the visibility got a little better, I started it, and we had power. We did not lose livestock, but many did. My father was near death in a nursing home, and we kept track by phone (underground lines) The nursing staff was stuck there without relief for a day or two.
Now, during the Armistice Day blizzard of 1940 I was 11 years old. It was an unexpected blizzard, and some had not yet put antifeeeze in their cars, and the sudden temp drops froze them. One good thing, we had no running water, had just recently been hooked up for electricity, so we still had lamps, coal and wood stoves, fruit, meat and vegetables canned the previous summer and cured pork, so food was no problem. I do not want to go through another blizzard like those two.

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