Snow on the Prairie Land

[JDGuy]

I found these old pics a couple of days ago. They were taken about 1978. I thought I would share them so we could all remember what snow looked like being most of us got little of it this year. These pics were taken at my Dad's farm.

[JDGuy]

A couple of more pics, from the early 1950's. This was the road north of my Dad's place. Too much snow for the county plow, so my Dad dug it out with a Minneapolis U tractor and an after-market Black Hawk loader. At this late date I have no idea who owned the car.

[dator]

Thanks for sharing.

[80spitfire]

Man if only we would have got snow like that this year!

[WinnipegStPaul9]

The "Blizzard of 78" was not really a fun time for sleds. It was all work as I remember. I was charged with hauling the local doctor around on house calls.

DA

[400brian]

Guy

Do you remember how much snow they actually got? It looks like it could have blown for a hundred miles there.

We have some prairie type ground south of us ( my ancestors settled earlier, and stopped here, where there was firewood ) and when it blows down there in the winter, it's totally different than up here.

Thanks for posting, looks like good times!

[JDT]

LOVE those old pictures!

Thanks for sharing them.

[JDGuy]

Brian:

I do not know how much snow they got in the first pics. I had left home several years before to make it on my own as Ag was not very profitable when I got out of high school, very unlike the most recent years. When it snowed much it usually blew and that caused large and very hard drifts around buildings. I was a kid when the 1950's pics were taken. That winter there was a lot of snow on the level, I remember there being no school for several days. There was some spring flooding, gravel roads soft and nearly impassable, more no school days. I also remember it was tough feeding cattle in several feet of snow which was one of the chores I helped with daily.

Guy