[Sacajaweau]

NYS....Stock up every winter so I don't have to carry heavy stuff through the snow.

I'm 70...everyone in my parents generation stocked up...the experience of the depression, the war and the winter.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

In my youth (1946-1956)on the High Plains, everyone stocked up before winter. There were times you could not get to town 40 miles away for weeks at a time.