Posted on 02/08/2013 5:46:22 PM PST by jongaltsr
Let me see if I have this straight: if I wake up in the Northeast (where I am not) with 30 inches of snow on my doorstep, I’m not “having things bad?”
One note. In many states, snow depth was so deep that they built two story outhouses and all houses had a door on the second floor dormer for just such events.
No doubt you would be inconvenienced but it would not be historical.
Historical indicates that such circumstances occur rarely though time and one century is short in regards to things historical.
I lived in Colorado and in 1983 I had snow so deep that the entire front of the house was covered in over 8 feet of snow. My back yard was just about as deep. When I dug out from my garage I got to the street and there was over (well over) 5 feet of snow between me and the house across the street. Cars could not be seen. Trucks could “barely” identified by a bump in the snow. We did not get our street cleared for almost a week because ALL of Denver and the surrounding suburbs were so stranded.
That was not historical. That was cyclical.
I couldn’t agree with you more profusely.
To me history is relative. For example — yesterday was History but not of the nature many would consider even the least important in such regard.
The name of this game is apocalypto-— “please oh please watch our network to get the latest news, and watch our stupid ads....because only WE can help you” Bulletins and advice from Bloomberg—”help us FEMA” Help us dear GOV.
This is the same thing that happens with a major hurricane— a lot of interest in the run up and the impact....then NOTHING afterward for people really hurt. Like during Andrew in Miami— not a word. Not the namby pamby CAT 1 that flattened wooden shacks on Rockaway that don’t even qualify as “housing” but valued at...well you know.
The most important part of this expanded govt. role— FEMA as interface to the “civilian” military and martial law (about which see Deval Patrick order citing no travel allowed on roads— seriously, you’ll need a special pass not “just cause you’re free to do so”. Big MAMA govt. and their choir in the media. About the only time ad rates go up on the Weather Channel is during hurrican season or this type of thing.
We keep a “storm box” with two weeks of food (separate from our 2 years worth) with cooking fuel, emergency batteries, heat blankets (space blankets), propane for heaters, and kerosene for lighting when the batteries go. Well, we’re just country bumpkins who are PREPARED- or in other words people to be watched by the feds as “preppers”. What idiocy.
Want to know what cold really was— Valley Forge in the Revolution and when the Delaware river had huge ice blocks in it when Washington crossed to the Battle of Trenton— a 200 year cycle of a mini-ice age. Think how much people invested in global warming would have made with what is coming (and are still trying to make it seems pitching global warming)- another cycle of cold.
Seriously though to NE freepers— be safe and careful, and we pray you will be OK, and better yet prepared.This is nothing a real New Englander hasn’t seen before. Deo Vindice.
Would YOU consider something that happened yesterday as historical?
Likewise, would consider something historical that happens (less often) but often enough that every one hundred years or so that it occurs on a more or less regular basis?
The bombing of the twin towers WAS historical simply because of their status of being the largest towers in the “Known” world and it was done by airplanes which both facts can not be found any place in history due to the overall uniqueness of both the buildings and how they were destroyed.
NOW - THAT WAS HISTORICAL.
Thanks for this post. I never heard of the “school house blizzard” I guess it got over shadowed by the March storm.
We really have it a lot better nowadays, there wasn’t even radio back in the 1800s!
Looks like the numerous outhouses found in “Encampment Wyoming”. Most have been torn down but there are still many in existance - and most of the houses still keep the second story door.
This account didn’t mentioon the the Great Pasadena Blizzard of 1949, which buried the Southland under about four inches of snow.
Could not agree with you more. People have become “gimme’s) when ever they are inconvenienced because our government hands out money for those who “feel” they deserve reimbersement regardless of any insurance that they should have had in the first place to cove such potential loss.
Example. When warned about Hurricane Katrina people stayed in their homes then cried when they got flooded out and warned many days in advance that they would probably be flooded.
I did not feel sorry for ANY of those people who stayed behind.
You are both absolutely correct.
I couldn't agree more. I talk to young people all the time that have no concept of the time before they were born.
The snow was between 4 to 6 feet depending on the wind drifts. For kids it was great because we had three snow days. Everybody stayed home and gave the city enough time for all the trucks to have their plows replaced.
It was basically no big deal.
I now live where two inches of snow shuts down the entire city for a week.
One winter, when I was 5 or 6 years old, we got a snow that was up to my armpits! Has not snowed armpit deep since that year.
Oh yeah and that winter it was so cold our words froze as we spoke them, had to thaw them out over a campfire to hear what was being said. That spring was the noisiest spring in History.
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