47 years ago, Jan 26, 1978 Ohio got hit with the big blizzard. Roads drifted shut, used bulldozers to open roads.
We used our little John Deere dozer to open our road.
Unfortunately, most of our pics are blurry from that event.
from my diary:
Jan 17 (Tue) No School- 8-10" snow
Jan 18 (Wed) NO School - Temps in 20s
Jan 19 (Thr) Midterms at School, more snow
Jan 20 (Fri) No School - snowed 12", Drifting, push road w/ dozer (bowling alley collapsed)
Jan 21 (Sat) Used dozer to push out neighbors lane
Jan 22 (Sun) No Church
Jan 23 (Mon) -5 deg, had school, Midterms
Jan 24 (tue) had school, Basketball game, scored 10 of our 40 pts, lost. Freezing rain, hung up going home. Used tractor to pull car up hill.
Jan 25 (Wed) No School, icy roads
Jan 26 (Thr) No School, BLIZZARD 10deg with -50 wind chill. Electric off 24.5 hrs
Jan 27 (Fri) No School, Electic on at 5am, 2 hrs to thaw frozen water line, Twp plow truck in creek, pulled them out with dozer.
Jan 28 (Sat) 2" snow
Jan 29 (Sun) 1" snow, discovered Cabin blew over..