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Super_Ideal_Rock
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I think winters were colder "back in the day". We don't have *near* the frigid temps we used to, and not near the snowfall we used to either. I remember it being normal to be able to walk the snow drifts by the side of the garage, onto the garage roof. (talk about heaven for us on snow days) Having to park in the fields across the gravel road b/c the snow would drift in the ditches/on the roads and the field was slightly higher elevation than the ditch/road/our property and the snow would be somewhat driveable in the field. 'course, you still could walk the drifts right over the barbed wire fence--and then slide down the ditch drifts and have to trek across the road. Or the buses only running on hard surface roads and dad taking us to meet the bus in the tractor. There's been several years we've not been able to take the kids sledding b/c there wasn't enough snow..and as kids we went every year and never had to leave the property b/c of the insane drifts in the trees. You'll never see a normally well traveled gravel drifted shut for days at a time w/10-15 ft drifts and two little kids making slides down them, not anymore.
We did get a huuuuge snowfall a few years ago, 60 inches that winter, w/in like just a few days, all right around Christmas. And it was like people had landed on an alien planet, nobody knew what to do. I remember laughing at people who were whining and complaining that it ruined the holidays b/c family couldn't get together. Guess what? My family did. My parents drove 10 miles in it, and these whining people couldn't figure out how to get even across our small town. But then, the Johnson family was a "country" family-snow shovels in the back, parking in the fields and such. hahahaha they're about legendary around here.
We did get a huuuuge snowfall a few years ago, 60 inches that winter, w/in like just a few days, all right around Christmas. And it was like people had landed on an alien planet, nobody knew what to do. I remember laughing at people who were whining and complaining that it ruined the holidays b/c family couldn't get together. Guess what? My family did. My parents drove 10 miles in it, and these whining people couldn't figure out how to get even across our small town. But then, the Johnson family was a "country" family-snow shovels in the back, parking in the fields and such. hahahaha they're about legendary around here.