How many of you have lived where the snow gets very deep?
By sunshinelady
@sunshinelady (7609)
United States
July 29, 2008 8:31pm CST
I lived in Minot AFB, North Dakota for eight years and let me tell you the snow does get very deep in the winter. I have posted a picture of my dog barreling through some heavy snow and that is not the heaviest snow that there is in North Dakota. There was a snowstorm that I had to be dug out of my house. So up there there is some serious snow falls. After the first year there my husband and I started to stock up food that was not perishable. A lot of can foods, bottled water and things like that. I am posting a picture here so you can see a little how deep the snow and this was a minor snow storm that had come about.
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@jillhill (37353)
• United States
30 Jul 08
I live in Minnesota and we often have big snows.....but not like when I was growing up. The winter of 1968 was the worst I can remember....it was so deep they had to get planes to drop meds out to the farmers who couldn't get into town. I think North Dakota has more then we do now...
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@sunshinelady (7609)
• United States
30 Jul 08
The year I lived there there was such a bad snow storm that they were having to dig people out of their houses. My husband was a telephone operater on base and he couldn't get home for a day and a half.
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@sunshinelady (7609)
• United States
30 Jul 08
Hi MIKEDC,
It is the most beautiful sight in the world. Looking at new fallen snow. And the feel of it is great.
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@danishcanadian (28954)
• Canada
30 Jul 08
The snow doesn't get overly deep here in Guelph, but it gets deep enough to cause some problems. My parents told me about driving up to the log cabin that they built in the wintertime, and how the snow was up to the ROOF!! The cabin was only 100 miles North of our hometown, but the snow got really really deep up there, and they had to shoel their way into the building.
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@sunshinelady (7609)
• United States
30 Jul 08
I always thought the snow was very pretty when it first fell. It can cause some pretty bad problems when it gets as high as you are talking about. I have some pretty deep snow up in North Dakota but I don't believe I have seen it as high as what you are talking about.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
4 Aug 08
normally no, but the snow was so high in montreal this last winter that it was almost to the top of my six foot gate in the back yard.
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@sunshinelady (7609)
• United States
5 Aug 08
That's a lot of snow. When we lived in North Dakota we saw a lot of snow when the winter hit us.
@sunkissed (4330)
• United States
30 Jul 08
I was born and raised in Pennsylvania. it really snowed a lot there too. I can remember times when my grandfather would have to come and dig us out of our house also, we had so many bad snow storms, the drifts would be so bad.We would always have to get ur drive-way plowed open.But I moved away when I was 20, moved to arkansas, that was 36 years ago, we do not get snow here at all, I don't miss it at all.
@sunshinelady (7609)
• United States
30 Jul 08
Hi sunkissed,
I imagine if you had deep snow that you had to contend with for most of your life you would not miss it if you moved away from the place. I lived in a place after I got married that had bad snow storms. I have seen some high snow after a snow storm.
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@ladym33 (10978)
• United States
2 Aug 08
The snow here in Illinois does not get that deep at least in recent years. When I first moved here when I was a kid in 1976 there was a huge snow storm, when we pulled up to our new house, which had been empty the snow was half way up the front door, we had to dig with our hands through the snow to get inside.
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@sunshinelady (7609)
• United States
5 Aug 08
I'm from Illinois also so I know what you are saying. We moved here in 1086 so we missed the big snow. It hasn't snowed real bad since we have been here.
@gberlin (3836)
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1 Aug 08
I live in central Michigan. We get snow. Sometimes it is deep and sometimes not so deep. I have been in storms in Michigan where the snow was 6 feet deep and deeper where it drifted. It took days to shovel out. They actually closed the university I was attending because the snow was so deep the faculty could not get to their classes from their homes. It was great!
@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
31 Jul 08
When I was a baby I lived in NJ. Now, the ONLY memory I have of NJ is looking out and down from a window and seeing 2 people, who I knew were my mother and brother, building me a snow man. My mom denied it happend for years until she finally conceeded that maybe I was remembering it, that I had been sick once and couldn't go out and they might've done it for me.
To give you an idea how far back this memory goes, I was born in November, and we moved to Texas BEFORE my 2nd birthday.
Other than that, I think the deepest snow I can really remember was about 4 inches - and actually hung around for 3 days because we didn't have sun shine or a break in the cold for that long - very strange for Austin, Texas.
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@sunshinelady (7609)
• United States
31 Jul 08
Hi ElicBxn,
They say that adults can remember things from when they were very young. I believe this. I lived in North Dakota and they had some pretty bad snow storms that when it was over people had to be dug out of their houses.
