So you think you've got a lot of snow? You should have been around during the winter of '48

So you think you've got a lot of snow? You should have been around during the winter of '48
Originally uploaded by Romair

didn't take this shot, but I vividly remember that winter of 1948. There was so much snow, you didn't dig a path from your front door, you dug a tunnel. This shot was taken with a Kodak Brownie box camera by my wife's brother, Lem, on their farm in the Berkshire Hills in Western Massachusetts. This being a family poultry farm with 10,000 chickens that absolutely had to be fed and watered and the eggs picked, even this amount of snow couldn't halt operations.

Here's an e-mail I got from Lem re the above:
Rog,
I recall that shot vey well. I don't know how you got that photo. Those were the good old days when winters were hard and long and the men were strong and hardy.
You probaly know that the winter of 1943-44 was one where the drifts came over the telephone wires and blocked us from getting out for a week without electric power until a state diesel snowthrower came to unblock the corks on West road directly north and south of our house.. That was so scary that the following year when Ed was born (Feb '45), Ma went to the hospital a week early because of the fear of being socked in again. Ask Mairi what she remembers about this.
Thanks for the memories.
Lem

I've put together a set called Our Life Story depicting our life together over the past half century and containing over 150 images and descriptions which, for the most part, are in chronological order. Check it out and tell me what you think of it. Here's a sample page of a loose leaf book I've put together using the images and descriptions included in this set.

Uploaded by Romair on 5 Jan 10, 11.43AM EDT.

This is what snow used to look like where we live now!! We're lucky if we get a couple of feet of snow in any winter lately! Global warming. Now that's what I call SNOW!!