Lynette Hebert wrote:

> I was just wondering how the people in this group that live where
> it snows alot buy your food for the winter time. Since you are snowed in
> quite often and cant get out ..

It's not as bad as you think. Even when I lived in the mountains in New
England, and we got heavy snow, the roads got plowed. As someone else
said, the plows are out before it gets bad. I think the worst we ever
had while I was growing up was a 24 hour wait. No, wait there was the
blizzard of 78 where we got 3 or 4 feet of snow one night and we weren't
allowed to go out for a couple of days, but I don't recall food ever
being an issue, and I'm sure we had power.

That being said, every old New England household knows to stock an extra
cord of wood for the stove, and keep canned goods on the back of the
shelf. We don't have a fireplace here where I live in Kansas now, so I
keep a small folding camp stove, and extra fuel, candles, lamps and oil,
batteries for the radio, etc. Few years ago we had one heck of an ice
storm that left us with a tree on top of my car and no power for 4 days.
We managed.

What kind of special things do you do to get through those
100-degree-plus summers?



Dawn