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Jenoch

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7. The worst blozzard in my lifetime in Minnesota

Reply to rurallib (Original post)

Sat Feb 1, 2014, 03:27 AM

Feb 2014

was the blizzard of January 10 - 12, 1975. I remember the snow drift in our front yard was 20 feet high. (We lived across the street from a lake.) Almost 60 people died in that blizzard as well as tens of thoisands of livestock. I remember that in mid April, a farmer found a live hog that had been buried in a snow bank. Lucky for that hog, that snow bank was up against a corn crib.

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Blizzard from Hell happened 3 years ago [View all] rurallib Jan 2014 OP

Yeah...didn't we get 18" of snow that night? cyberswede Jan 2014 #1

something like that rurallib Jan 2014 #4

Worst ever? I'm 64 too HarveyDarkey Jan 2014 #2

no - but that melted pretty fast rurallib Jan 2014 #3

Maybe it melted fast where you were HarveyDarkey Feb 2014 #6

Are we talking about the groundhog day blizzard Cadfael Feb 2014 #5

That's a good story. mnhtnbb Feb 2014 #8

The worst blozzard in my lifetime in Minnesota Jenoch Feb 2014 #7

2011 was a very snowy--and frigid--winter in Eastern PA meow2u3 Feb 2014 #9

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