When I was a kid we were snowed in for 6 weeks, my mother was so prepared I don’t remember us doing without anything. There were messages on the radio to make signs with rocks if you needed food or medical attention or supplies. We didn’t need a thing, the only issue we had was our water line froze and we had to melt snow for water.
We lived north of Flagstaff, AZ and got over 80 inches of snow in 8 days! The total snowfall the winter of 1967 was like 150 inches. The government had an airlift going to the Navajos and Hopis that lived near us and they were dropping pallets of food and supplies from helicopters on the reservations. The ranch we were on used helicopters to drop hay to the cattle- it was amazing.
My mother was truly amazing- she grew up during the depression and she was always prepared for anything. It sure paid off that winter. We were snowed in nearly all of December and part of January but she had already bought all the presents so even Christmas was still awesome.
That’s a great story, Tammy8, and typical of the backbone of those good people like your mom.
To be fair, I ‘really’ wasn’t snowed in for 6 weeks. We only got a couple feet, but I have a long uphill driveway that stayed frozen for 6 weeks and I wasn’t about to shovel that thing. I did it once and I decided staying home was better:<)