HELP!!! I'm up to my *ss in snow!

[mrdutton]

The'79 and '87 blizzards were storms to remember! But I missed them because I was sailing the seven seas onboard those grey Navy vessels at the time.

Now what about the blizzards we had in the 60's? Anybody remember those days?

One year the snow was so bad, the plows in Northern Delaware, Northeastern Maryland and Southeastern Pennsylvania could not bust through the drifts. The State of Pennsylvania had equipment for those kinds of heavy snows, but it was all out in Northern & Western Pennsylvania where it was normally needed.

The State of Delaware called out the National Guard. They used TANKS to bust through the drifts.

The snow was so deep we could not open our front door. But I could crawl out my bedroom window up onto the top of the drift in front of the house. It was packed, too, because it easily supported our weight on top of the drifts.

The neighborhood kids and my sister and I built a tunnel system and forts under the snow in our front yard. Thank goodness that the tunnels never collapsed on us!

[This message has been edited by mrdutton (edited 02-17-2003).]