Chicago had the biggest snow ever in 67 when I was a kid.
Us kids thought it was the best winter ever!!! The drifts were so high we could run around house roofs. So many tunnels built in our neighborhood looked like an ant colony.
Um, Dads didn’t feel the same way. They had to shovel a path out of our houses and our elderly neighbors houses to the street and then a pathway down the street.
After about a week our neighborhood ran out of food and the Dads shovel out to plowed road, went to our elderly neighbors to get their grocery list, took all their kids sleds and walked miles to a grocery store to get their neighbors fed. My Dad set that up. The local paper even interviewed him.
He taught me “Do unto others” is number one. And food hoarding is probably a good idea.
Best winter and my love for Dad went sky high.
Great story, thank you.
Stockpiling a cache or maintaining a pantry of non-perishable food for emergencies is wise, “hoarding” on the other hand is actually a negative thing, that’s when people purchase or acquire unreasonable quantities, way more than they can use, refuse to share or even sell a necessary article. The complete opposite of what your Dad and neighbors were doing.