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January 26-27 Snowstorm Disco IV


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Get ready March is coming

On the twentieth of the last February [March 3, 1717] there came on a snow, which

being added unto what had covered the ground a few days before, made a thicker mantle

for our Mother than what was usual: And ye storm with it was, for the following day, so

violent as to make all communication between ye Neighbors every where to cease—

People, for some hours, could not pass from one side of a street unto another, & ye poor

Women, who happened in this critical time to fall into Travail, were putt unto Hardships,

which anon produced many odd stories for us.

The great storm of 1717, shut people up at home as snugly and effectually as if they had

been locked in. Those who were blockaded had to resort to their furniture and the like for

fuel; in some places the snow was thirty feet deep [in drifts]. People made their exit

frequently from second story windows, and the trees cut down for fuel, left long stumps

behind. One Hannah Dingley, a poor woman who lived not far from New Haven, was

buried for six or eight days, but at last discovered by her neighbors, by smoke of the fire

coming through snow. Hannah dieted a la Graham on potatoes and dried corn, and

warmed up with chair, and tables

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Get ready March is coming

On the twentieth of the last February [March 3, 1717] there came on a snow, which

being added unto what had covered the ground a few days before, made a thicker mantle

for our Mother than what was usual: And ye storm with it was, for the following day, so

violent as to make all communication between ye Neighbors every where to cease—

People, for some hours, could not pass from one side of a street unto another, & ye poor

Women, who happened in this critical time to fall into Travail, were putt unto Hardships,

which anon produced many odd stories for us.

The great storm of 1717, shut people up at home as snugly and effectually as if they had

been locked in. Those who were blockaded had to resort to their furniture and the like for

fuel; in some places the snow was thirty feet deep [in drifts]. People made their exit

frequently from second story windows, and the trees cut down for fuel, left long stumps

behind. One Hannah Dingley, a poor woman who lived not far from New Haven, was

buried for six or eight days, but at last discovered by her neighbors, by smoke of the fire

coming through snow. Hannah dieted a la Graham on potatoes and dried corn, and

warmed up with chair, and tables

Great stuff to read!

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Get ready March is coming

On the twentieth of the last February [March 3, 1717] there came on a snow, which

being added unto what had covered the ground a few days before, made a thicker mantle

for our Mother than what was usual: And ye storm with it was, for the following day, so

violent as to make all communication between ye Neighbors every where to cease—

People, for some hours, could not pass from one side of a street unto another, & ye poor

Women, who happened in this critical time to fall into Travail, were putt unto Hardships,

which anon produced many odd stories for us.

The great storm of 1717, shut people up at home as snugly and effectually as if they had

been locked in. Those who were blockaded had to resort to their furniture and the like for

fuel; in some places the snow was thirty feet deep [in drifts]. People made their exit

frequently from second story windows, and the trees cut down for fuel, left long stumps

behind. One Hannah Dingley, a poor woman who lived not far from New Haven, was

buried for six or eight days, but at last discovered by her neighbors, by smoke of the fire

coming through snow. Hannah dieted a la Graham on potatoes and dried corn, and

warmed up with chair, and tables

NO WONDER why people go running for milk, bread and eggs who the heck wants to eat potatoes and dried corn when you can have oodles of french toast! JK.... I will ensure to bring a shovel indoors to dig myself out Thursday morning......

I can almost bet kids were sent to school that day as well..... ;)

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