Remembering Snow

Sharp-shinned Hawk dealing with the snow

Snow wasn't much fun when it came down during the 1940s. Almost everything was rationed and money was always short. We did go outside when it snowed and gathered large dispans full of snow to make snow ice cream. Mother added some vanilla extract to the snow and mixed it up and we ate it and pretended it was real ice cream.

In those days the roads were not plowed by snow plows. I don't think the county I lived in even owned a snow plow blade. The cities did have at least one large dump truck that was loaded with cinders from the electric power generating plant. The truck driver would stop in the middle of an intersection and throw a scoop shovel full of cinders where the drivers were supposed to stop before going through. The cinders provided enough traction so drivers could stop.

Road crews never touched rural roads and sometimes the ice and snow packed down and ruts developed from tires running back and forth. You could drive into the ruts and without touching the steering wheel the car drove itself down the road. No steering was required until you had to steer out of the ruts and that wasn't easy to do when the ruts were deep.

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