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| It took place in 1940. I was only nine years old so I don't recall many details of the storm. I recall my brother loading the milk in the pickup and getting out to the end of the driveway and as soon as he got on the gravel road he got stuck. Dad and my brother harnassed up a team of horses and they pulled it out. Then we had a few chickens still outside and I had to go help with that project and we saved most of them. A lot of livestock was lost as people still had hogs out in pastures and picked corn fields and they were very hard to move and a lot of them were lost. A lot of turkeys that were out on range were lost. Strawsheds which were common for that period time collapsed from the weight of the snow and a lot of livestock perished in them. A lot of hunters got caught because there was no advance warning so they perished. Roads were not built up like they are nowadays so they were bloocked shortly after the rain changed to snow. Jim J | |
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Armistice Day storm was what year?
