We lived for one year in S. Dakota. Our first snow was 21”. It stayed and had many more added during that winter. Snow was still on the ground and melting in June.
I went out to get the mail one day, and sunk chest deep in a snowdrift. The snow was drifted all the way up to a little higher than our windows-we were living in a trailer.
Hubby walked across the highway one day to go to the grocery store and get a couple of bags of groceries. A blizzard hit. He had a hard time getting back to the trailer park. He said if he had dropped a bag, he would not have stopped to pick it up.
One day, I woke up in the wee hrs. freezing—ice had formed and popped the door next to the bedroom open. Used an icepick to chizel out the ice so it would close.
Was so glad to get back to Missouri where stuff usually melts in a few days before the next round. I do miss the weekly dairy delivery-it was great to have.
You were living like Ma & Pa Ingalls back in the day!
I seriously do NOT understand why people live where the weather can be life threatening - but really, I guess it can happen anywhere - snow, rain, hail, tornadoes, lightening strikes, ice storms, sink holes, landslides, volcanoes, floods, avalanches, earthquakes...and if you go WAY south or to the Desert - snakes, gators, everyday poisonous critters and BUGS the size of Volkswagons, LOL!
I guess living anywhere on EARTH entails some risk, but, where else are we going to live? Earth is still the best planet I know of. ;)