Many ventured out for the first time all weekend and kept an eye on their neighbors, while others thought it just another occasion to party.
The snow buried cars and stoops, snapped trees and knocked out power to thousands. It will likely strand some for a few more days.
In Birdsville, Aaron Mitchell, his wife, Cati, and their two kids love living on acreage surrounded by fields and woods.
But yesterday the country life took on a more serious note. The blizzard dumped at least 28 inches in their neck of the...
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Sal - 2010-02-09 11:15:03
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Pffft! - 2010-02-08 20:48:24
Nothing. When I was a kid, the snowflakes were the size of dinner plates and twice as heavy. So if you tried to catch snowflakes in your mouth, you would knock out your front teeth. AND, wherever the snow touched bare skin, you got leprosy. Not like today's snows.
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Blizzard? nah! - 2010-02-08 20:43:35
How times change. When I was a kid it was like this. If it snowed so much that it was over top of the front door and you couldn't even open the windows because the snow was pilled up over them. That was a blizzard. Anything else was a minor inconvenience.
Just had to put that out there.
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