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That could almost be an advertisement for Lloydfest III

Cheers,
Harv

 

1982 (wife corrected me on the year). We lived about 10 miles out in the country, on the top of a hill. The road past our house was an east/west narrow gravel road with 3'-4' deep ditches on each side. One of those roads the county didn't plow until last. Our driveway was on the west side of the house, with a 24' x 36' deep garage that sat about 10' behind the house, inline with the driveway. I had 3 or 4 cars parked just past the west edge of the 2 car wide drive way, and just west of the parked cars was a row of lilac trees. The property ended just west of the lilac trees. The one acre property was surrounded by a farmers field, which was picked clean. We parked our driver cars on the driveway right next to the house, because the garage was full of car parts (I sold cars parts as a sideline business).

That winter was rough. it was either 20-30 below 0 temps, or it warmed up to near freezing and dumped a bunch of snow.
It started snowing Sat morning before sunrise with a brutal wind coming out of the west. By noon we already had more then 10" of snow on the road and we knew the road would not be plowed until at least Sunday night. The snow and wind kept coming all day and into the night.

We woke up Sunday morning to a bright sunny day, with already dropping temps. Looking out of our kitchen window (it faced the driveway) all you could see was a huge snow drift, no parked cars, just the top 1/2 of the lilac trees and the top panel on the garage door! We couldn't even see our mail box that was side of the driveway, along the road. The drift across the front yard was about 8' high! We couldn't get out of our back door, we had to go out the front door, and walk across the top of the snow drift. It was packed so hard, it felt like I was walking on cement. As I walked towards the driveway, I could see about a 6" x 3" wide strip of the red vinyl top our car had, I couldn't even see where the 4x4 Ramcharger was sitting! Standing on top of what I figured was where the Ramcharger was under all that snow, I could look out over the top of both the garage roof and the house roof!
At 7 am, I started digging through the snow. By 10 am, the entire family was manning shovels. By the time we got the cars dug out, a path dug to the road wide enough to drive on, and the path to the back door cleaned up, it was already getting dark, and much colder. I had been digging nearly 12 hours at that point. I could hear the plows working on the roads near ours most of the afternoon, but it was nearly 8 pm before it made the 1st pass down our road. The official snow fall for that day was 24" over a 24 hour period, and drifts up to 8' high (like the one across our driveway).

We were not digging because we thought we were going to go someplace, we were digging because we knew we were going to have to do it if we ever wanted to go someplace.