Human snow plow
Some things are just as they were back then: when heavy snow hits the cities, chaos ensues. You can count on the fact that using your car is going to take you a lot more time than usual, and you have to pray for the snowplows to pass by your house so you can exit your driveway. Yet, back in the day, they did not even have the luxury of a snowplow!
In this photo, we can see people from the National Guard on the streets of Cleveland, Ohio, helping everyone else clean the street in 1950. They’re helping people shovel snow away to reveal the cars totally engulfed in snow, the aftermath of a heavy snow storm caused one of the city’s worst traffic jams! Nowadays, we can at least count on the fact that some of the work will be done by trucks!
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we need snow to purify the landscape an better enhance the holiday season
these picture are wonderful
I live in Srilanka. We never go through winter as in European countries. However, while I am writing this note Srilanka is unusually Misty and Cold from early morning (8/12/22). As per the information received the mist is due to accumulated dust in the Indian atmosphere. Citizens have been advised to wear a good mask before they leave their homes to avoid catching a cold. This reminds me of the Covid19 days. How long will this last be anybody’s guess.
The good old days?? You no longer have snow?? Well, that’s what happens when you move from Massachusetts to Florida! I don’t know what kind of bs you are peddling, but in my part of the country, we still have snow, like always in the winter. There’s nothing “good old days” about it. Every winter, it snows, as usual.
Back in 2007 or 2008 we had a blizzard in Chicago, and it took me over 4 hours to go roughly 35 miles from workplace St Charles to home in Oswego. Accumulation was over 3 feet, and it took me most of the following day to dig out my driveway. Not quite as bad as the photos you showed, but then I had no National Guard to help me shouvel, either!
They are AWESOM PICTURES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It really does show what Snow look like then.
And when the Snow first fell, It was as White coud be, and it look STUNNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I remember The Blizzard of 1978!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!