Yup , same here down south of the border , i set just about a 100 miles south of lake Eire and oh M G the sky is falling if we get and inch of snow. I can vaguely remember the 1950 snow storm but from then on yea we got snow . Back in my youth when winter set in here in Podock Jct. they would close the streets with hills because this town really did not have much for snow removal equipment . They had at the time two Gallon road graders that were the smaller ones powered by Farmall M engines and a ten foot blade . They had a hard enough time keeping the main roads open let lone the side streets . But us kids put the closed streets to good use as they made great sled riding hills . . The winters did not slow us down much . When we moved away to another smaller town they only had a old Mil surplus Dodge 3'/4 ton with a 9 foot plow on it for the whole village . when winter started to set in and you owned a car you made sure that you were ready to deal with it , Ya had and old wash tube in the trunk filled with dry sand or ashes , ya had a shovel or two , ya had your tire chains and now that the SNOW tire was the coming thing you put them on by the first of Nov. as we always got a good snow fall by the first of Nov. when hunting season came in . And the snow did not slow us down . We kids now that we were in Highschool always said that the only way they MIGHT close school is if we got a super heavy snow on judgement day and we would still have to go for atleast a half day then. I can still remember 1963 vary well and the years that followed . One Nov. day it started snowing around 6:30 in the morning as we were getting ready for school and dad was getting ready to head out to work , it was coming down hard and fast . I had my first car and i told my mom that i was just going to walk to school as it was not that far , i only went a half day and worked the other half for a vary large construction company in the afternoon on school days . By noon we had around 8 inches on the ground and it was still snowing . The village was having a rough time keeping the three main roads open . I walked home and had a bite of lunch changed clothes and WALKED to work as it was just a mile away.When i got to the shop my boss told me to get the Ford tractor out of the back bay and start to clean the lot. That was at 1:30 and i started at the back bay of the shop and worked my way to the U S highway that ran past the shop and turned around and worked my way back half way and back to the highway back and forth and the snow kept on coming. around 4:30 my boss came out and tood me to just give up and to help him get the one D 6 and the one big Gallon grader running and into the main shop as he said WE MAY NEED them come morning . Old U S 224 was back then a main truck route and the old semi['s coming by were all sporting chains . John and i got the D 6 and grader inside and turned on the infloor heat and left the over head heater on set at 70 . John then tolod me to take my company truck on home with me and i told him WHY it is all nice and dry and warm tucked away back in my play room ( when i got my first car and started TINKERING the owner of the company allowed me to use the old carpenter shop as my personal play room to work on my car and a good place for myself and my friends to HANG out at ) I did not want to take my brand new company truck out in that weather it was a brand new 1963 F 350 Ford one ton 4x4 with a 352 V8 and a A M radio with everything you would ever need on a job site . So since John lived east of me and had the Willie Jeep Pick up repowered with a 283 Chevy John ran me home . Aws we got to my house john said i don't think your going to have school tomorrow and i laughed and told him fat chance we always have school . My dad was not home yet and our drive was over knee deep so before i went in i fired up my cubby and dug out the drive . After supper my one close friend and i went bowling and Walked as it was JUST a little over a 1/4 mile and it was still snowing hard when he and i left the bowling alley , the truck traffic was almost a crawl the old 238 Detroit and the old 220 and 250 Cummins were working hard on the big hill out on the east end . While my buddy Jack and i were talking where he would head north two streets to his house and i would go west then south it started to lighting and thunder , never seen anything like that before and it started snowing harder . Got home and took a shower and went to bed . I was woke up at 1:30 by the phone ringing and dad cussing as he went to the dinning room to answer it and i heard him say hello and just a min i'll get him. and he came into my room and said it is for you . It was my boss and i answered it and i get COME AND GET ME i am Stuck in my drive , we have been called out to open roads . Use the D 6 . Well i did have a key for the place and i was the only one close . By now you could not even walk in what was down , car haw i could not even see my car it was buried next to the garage . I used and old set of Ski's to pole my way to the shop and had to dig down to get my key on the door . Before i left i dug out the heat houser for the D 6 and put that on angled the blade and out the door i went . Sometimes i could run 4 th gear but most it was 3rd gear and listening to the old D 6 cackle . weaving around stalled trucks and a few cars over to Boardman and down to Johns home and there he sat high centered in his drive one little tug and it was back to the shop and it is still snowing . Did a quick plow job around the main shop and office then John and i started getting other equipment up and running . We had people coming in to run equipment that had never worked for the company before if it had a blade or bucket it was being put to work . We even put the D 9 that i normally ran out on the roads as i had rt. Us 224 west to Deerfield and back to Ellsworth Rt 45 south to the county line then across Rt 165 to US 62 to the county line and back to the shop on U S 62 . Yep school was closed to three days not counting the week end . Then again in 64 and 65 . I have only missed two years of no snow . Now sofar this year i have only fired up my old junk snow blower once and used the kitchen broom once . This morning it was a bit icy . And last night the weather gussers were yacking gloom and doom .
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