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Hoegy also remembers making several trips to both Brodhagen and Seaforth for supplies with a team of horses and sleigh. "I remember going on horseback to Brodhagen for some groceries - we all had horses then - and the poor horse's saddle bags were all loaded down with chicken feed and baby food. The neighbour had a baby boy and I dropped the baby food off in the mailbox on the way by," says Hoegy. "When you went into Seaforth, you'd leave the team and sleigh at the old horse sheds that used to be at the Queen's Hotel. You'd leave at 10 a.m., get to town in about an hour and a half, get what you needed and head back home at 4 p.m." The Expositor's Feb. 7 edition of 1947 said a storm blocked the district roads with snowplowing being abandoned in McKillop and Tuckersmith Townships. Its Feb. 14th edition recorded a four-day storm, called "the worst in 25 years" when plows battled huge drifts on concessions and sideroads and Seaforth's Main Street "assumed a tunnel -like appearance with drifts along the west side completely blocking off store windows" and gangs of men removed the snow with trucks and teams of horses. "For a couple of days this week, the going was very, very heavy and what there was was mostly on foot. Even Old Dobbin was out of the running," said that week's editorial. Reid says the snow got so high that winter that horses' heads were above the telephone lines when walking along the road. "I remember kids going home from school used.to run their hands along the telephone lines," he says. "And, it used to snow black for days. It would snow for days so heavy and steady that we needed the lights on day and night." Frank Doyle, who grew up near Centralia, remembers the winter of '47 as the year a neighbour needed help getting into Exeter to have her baby. "She was in labour when we put her in the backseat of an old Model A and dragged the car out through the bush on the front bob of a sleigh. A dozen men went to help. When we got to Highway 4, they could drive into Exeter. Those old Model A's would go through a lot with chains on them," says Doyle. The Expositor's Feb. 28 edition recorded how highway crews found it impossible to do more than keep one "narrow single track lane" open for more than three weeks on many roads. It also said that students were seeking town accommodation for the rest of the winter. Hoegy remembers a crew of 20 people digging four and a half miles to Daniel Beuerman's house on the 10th sideroad of McKillop to get him out to the hospital so he could have his appendix removed. "The call came out on the old party line - if it went ringing long you knew it was a fire or an emergency of some kind - and we all went out to dig. We started at 2 in the afternoon and didn't stop until 6 in the morning. My gloves froze right around the shovel handle," he says. By March 7, The Expositor recorded the "worst blizzard in 30 years" with no trains getting through for.four days and three locomotives pushing a plow to finally open the rail line. Dr. Paul Brady, of Seaforth, was reported to use his skis to visit a 17 -month-old child suffering from pneumonia and Sky Harbour Air Services was used to deliver 100 pints of milk to Bayfield for babies since the roads to Bayfield were impassable. In the March 14 edition, a story reported of a railway plow marooned in Hensall for a week by a 20 -foot drift that extended for a mile and a quarter along the track. One of the 29 railway men digging out the plow was quoted: "All we could see were the smokestacks" of the train. An elderly Hensall couple was credited with feeding nine of the men at each meal. That week's editorial also remarked on there being more horses, sleighs and cutters on Seaforth's Main Street Quoted 'I remember kids going home from school used to run their hands along the telephone lines,' -- Watson Reid than in a decade, discussing the problem of a lack of• stables downtown. By April, The Expositor was reporting how the highways, county roads and town streets were heaved by frost, full of holes and in need of extensive repairs because of the severe winter. But, despite the long, hard winter that year, agreement is reached around the euchre table that people of 1947 were in some ways better equipped to handle a snowbound winter. "Oh, it was a long winter but if you didn't get to town, you didn't miss it," says Hoegy. "Yes, if you got a bit of cabin fever, you'd just walk to a neighbour's and play some cards," says Reid. "I used to ride my horse to see my girlfriend," says Doyle. "Most everyone had a woodstove and baked their own bread. Them times we were all equipped to do for ourselves. There were potatoes in the cellar and cured hams hanging from the rafters. All we ever needed was a bit of flour and coffee," says Hoegy. And, their advice for coping with this year's winter Scott Hilgendorff photo Winter training Seaforth and District Community Centres was the site of a hockey skills camp last week where several local Junior B players came home to help young hockey players sharpen their skills. is, "Grin and bear it - you're not going to change it" and "Slow down - there are too many people on the roads in a hurry to get to heaven the way they're driving." Dietz should be home soon From Page 1 her go through the long labour and Caesarean, knowing there was little he could do to help her. While normally released from hospital after two days, Dietz was expecting a five-day stay at the hospital because of the surgery but hoped to be home early this week. 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