By Betty Weston
Now that winter is over (or so we hope), let us go back to 1975 when we had a very mild winter – yet come the first of April, we had the worst storm of the season!
It was Thursday morning and nearly all the snow had gone except for a few snowdrifts along the fence rows and such. Our feed for our animals was getting low, so we went to Stayner for more. When we got home we parked our truck, a three-quarter ton pick-up, in our yard between the house and barn as always.
On Thursday afternoon it started to snow and the wind picked up. By nighttime, we had a real winter storm going. Some schoolchildren were home by noon that day, as it was exam time. But some students were stranded because school buses couldn’t get to the school by closing time. The storm kept up for three days and roads were blocked. What a storm it was!
Some folks from Creemore had a snowmobile to get around so they came to our farm for fresh eggs and milk. (Imagine how that would stand today! You must not drink raw milk!)
I suppose Jim and Helen Elder will remember the storm, as I understand they recently celebrated their wedding anniversary. With the roads blocked that year, their wedding was held at our neighbours’, the Chrisley’s, house. Then they pulled the cars to Creemore with tractors.
When the storm was finished, we had a snow bank in our yard that was about 10 feet deep. It completely covered our truck, but a wee bit of the racks were left uncovered. The racks were six feet high on our truck.
I, like all the rest of you folks this year had enough of winter, but as the saying goes, “Nothing is so bad that it couldn’t be worse.”