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My family was from SW Virginia but moved to Ohio and I grew up in Licking County.
We lived way out on a very small country road. I remember the blizzards of 77 and 78.
In 1978 we were snowed in for 10 days or more and had to be dug out with a huge front loader. The snow was piled up as high as the power lines.
The blizzard of 1978 was pretty rough too. We were snowed in for about five or six days, but with a tractor and a bunch of west virginia high-lifts, (shovels) we were able to dig our way out. The problem was the snow would drift back in just about every day.
You couldn't travel without a FWD vehicle so for two weeks or more we would check on the neighbors and get them to town for food etc. Fortunately I don't recall any medical emergencies and we were without power for just a short time.
In the aftermath of the 78 blizzard a found a lot of frozen birds, especially doves, and that was the last of bobwhite quail in my hunting grounds.
Before these blizzards we would see covies of 25 to 30 birds in our front yard. Everything else bounced back pretty well, but not the quail.
I live in Licking County and know how remote it can be today even more so at that time. We lived in the Worthington area during the storm.
The quail population has never really recovered. The pheasants were hit hard as well. It was a bad storm.
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