The Long Winter
Thursday, March 18th, 2010This winter reminds me of the “Long Winter” that I experienced in South Dakota in the mid 1980s. Now, I am
sure that if you have read the Laura Ingalls Wilder book of the same name, you would have thought, at first, that I was talking about THAT long winter!
But, no! Western South Dakota had a long winter in 1986 – 1987. That was the year it started snowing in October and didn’t stop snowing until mid-April. That was the year that my 80+year-old father-in-law said “I’ve never seen this much snow in my life!”
I do not remember how MUCH snow we got that winter except it was mega, mega snow!
Now, we lived 20 miles east of Rapid City. The road to our homestead was 2 miles from the main highway and only about 1 mile of that was considered county road. Our road was a no-maintenance road – the people that lived on the road did any maintenance needed. And at the time of this big snow, there were 3 families that lived on it. We had a large 4×4 3-quarter ton pickup with chains on all 4 wheels; Sue had a 4×4 pickup without chains. The 3rd family, Holly and Michael, had a Suburban but it was not 4×4. We also had a 4×4 Jeepster but it did not have the clearance that the pickup had.
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