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I was outside digging toward the snow plow, was 16.5 inches deep, supposed to snow today, all night, until 5 or 7 tomorrow morning. Right now, my car and wifes car cannot get out of the garage without getting "high center" under the cars, and being stuck outside the garage door, so not even going to try. 71 pickup, is higher from the ground, but the snow blade will not push more then 18 to 20 inches of snow, without getting stuck. So going to have to wait until Sat or Sunday to try and get out I think.
I was a kid, in the Blizzard of 1949, we were stuck in the farm for a good week, before the road graders opened the old dirt road past the farm. My mom took photos of myself, my brother, and the neighbor's son, trying to dig the rear of the 1937 International farm truck, clear, so it could try and back out. Only the hot sun freed us.... But we had plenty of food and groceries, as before the snow storm, my mother's mother, mom saw her in a dream, grandma told her about the snow storm, so mom stocked up. Dad laughed at the dream. He never laughed at her dreams after that again! It took two weeks to get out of the farm!
there was a snow drift, as high as the barn to the right side, it blocked the car garage and also blocked the truck garage. The tractors were also drifted in as well. I am going to stick in a photo, after we dug an opening thru the snow drift, so that we could get to the front of each garage, and we still had to dig into the two garages before we got the car out and and the truck out. Out cattle were out in the field, they walked on the snow out over the corral fence, and ate beet tops out in the beet field. Now when I tell that story, very few believe what I say... But the photo tells the story. Until the road grader opened the country road, our neighbor had a WWII CJ3 jeep, it could drive into town using the DITCH BANK, but the dirt road, was still drifted shut. This photo was right after we managed to dig out the farm truck. The car was still in its garage though until the sun melted the snow and we were able to dig it open... Look that the amount of snow, that was in the truck garage, it CAKED around the truck. so we had to ACTUALLY dig the truck out INSIDE the truck garage before we could get it to back out of the garage. And we had to dig space so the truck could turn, as its drift was just too much to dig through. That blizzard snow bound people in state after state you see... We were lucky we only had to dig through just this tall drift. The snow in the yard was 18 inches deep you see, the truck had a two speed rear axel, and 5 gears forward, 1 gear reverse. It was a strong truck!!!
MELBETA
I was a kid, in the Blizzard of 1949, we were stuck in the farm for a good week, before the road graders opened the old dirt road past the farm. My mom took photos of myself, my brother, and the neighbor's son, trying to dig the rear of the 1937 International farm truck, clear, so it could try and back out. Only the hot sun freed us.... But we had plenty of food and groceries, as before the snow storm, my mother's mother, mom saw her in a dream, grandma told her about the snow storm, so mom stocked up. Dad laughed at the dream. He never laughed at her dreams after that again! It took two weeks to get out of the farm!
there was a snow drift, as high as the barn to the right side, it blocked the car garage and also blocked the truck garage. The tractors were also drifted in as well. I am going to stick in a photo, after we dug an opening thru the snow drift, so that we could get to the front of each garage, and we still had to dig into the two garages before we got the car out and and the truck out. Out cattle were out in the field, they walked on the snow out over the corral fence, and ate beet tops out in the beet field. Now when I tell that story, very few believe what I say... But the photo tells the story. Until the road grader opened the country road, our neighbor had a WWII CJ3 jeep, it could drive into town using the DITCH BANK, but the dirt road, was still drifted shut. This photo was right after we managed to dig out the farm truck. The car was still in its garage though until the sun melted the snow and we were able to dig it open... Look that the amount of snow, that was in the truck garage, it CAKED around the truck. so we had to ACTUALLY dig the truck out INSIDE the truck garage before we could get it to back out of the garage. And we had to dig space so the truck could turn, as its drift was just too much to dig through. That blizzard snow bound people in state after state you see... We were lucky we only had to dig through just this tall drift. The snow in the yard was 18 inches deep you see, the truck had a two speed rear axel, and 5 gears forward, 1 gear reverse. It was a strong truck!!!
MELBETA