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Our road  is about 2000 feet long with about 900 feet of that length winding 
through heavy, steep-sided forest.  To this day a prominent feature to be 
seen 
here is the stumps and log ends where we had to cut away more than 50 trees 
to clear the road in the aftermath of that '93 storm.  The county fared 
little 
better, it was days before the roads were clear and almost two weeks without 
power.

Eldest had just turned a year old and the depth of the snow was several 
inches over his head.  We cooked outside over a fire in the hibachi, melted 
snow 
the same way since the pump depended on electricity, and put jugs of milk in 
the 
snow to cool them after the milking.

The manually lit propane range still worked and herself made a huge chocolate 
cake from scratch which to this day is called "Blizzard Cake".

We in a much better stead to endure such a storm now than we were then.