Blizzard of '78: Heroic trucker

We were pulling tractors out of that snow storm on hwy 28 in Indiana with big Farm tractors. We had a snow drift up to our roof at our house.

 

I was 16. Have worked full time ever since then. Left home when I was 16. Worked for a farmer. He was charging 50 bucks to pull these trucks out.

 

I got socks that old!

 

I was nine and in Northern Illinois on a dairy farm 6 miles from the Hampshire truck stops at the 36.5 mm I remember we dumped milk down the drain 6 days in a row as the milk truck couldn't get through to pick it up. Dad spent 4 days on a 4600 ford tractor with a loader plowing 1 lane to hwy 20 over a mile away to get the milk truck through. We still had snow piles in our yard in July that year..........

 

I remember that storm. We were in living in Michigan at the time, but my whole family and I was down in Atlanta visiting with my grandparents. I was about 12 years old at the time.

When we got back to Michigan, I recall my dad having to park the car in the road so we could all pitch in to shovel the 8 foot drift from the end of the driveway. Later that day, my brothers and I were climbing on the roof of the garage and jumping from the peak into the drift beside the garage. The peak is about 15 feet and the snow was almost that high at some points. We'd jump, and then tunnel our way over to the house, make our way along side the garage and then pop out of the snow bank near the driveway. It was some hella good fun.

I'm sure the adults weren't having too much fun with the snow, but 8-10ft snow drifts are magical to a kid!