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Talking about the storms we havebeen through really stirred memo-■ries of old.Most of the older ladies in the Bible Study group remembered the lee Storm that had covered most of our great state in the years gone by. Perhaps that scene will always be a part of those proverbial pictures that find their way into the head. You know, pictures that cannot be erased but are always there at your beck and call. It was an unreal situation but the lasting memories stir for recognition from some place in the distant shores of the mind. I can see them now, the icicles hanging around on everything, the house, theDorothy Taylorbarn, the outhouse, the henhouses, smokehouse, pigpins and the garage can’t be left out. Ice was everywhere. The creek water was frozen over, grass blades stood on edge or hun-gover as they bore the heavy ice sticking like glue, and icicles hung about the telephone lines and high-lines carrying electricity from the resource zione. The poor oY cows were covered, too, as they hung inclose to each other and to the barn for some sort of protection. Icy hands had to be gentle as they touched the heavy bags of milk that flowed warmly into the awaiting buckets. The milkers had to approach the loaded bags with care due to the quickness of the leg used for kicking at anything icy-feeling that is approaching. Inside the barn the cows gave off warmth in spite of the ice hanging around on theirhides. It was one time the milk-*maids appreciated the efforts of cow milking as they squeeze*d in between the icy warmth of the cows in their stalls. The storm raged for several days and results were disastrous.The high-line folks sent out their workers from the REA to mend the downed and loaded lines. The toughest part to realize was the fact that the telephone man from Myra didn’t have help to build the phone lines that had graced the country roads. Rather, that was the end of the party line rings as we never received new lines for a continued need to use the telephone. Many storms have occurred since that time in the forties, bu hopefully I’ll never experience another comparable ice storm.Job21:18 “They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.”
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Lockhart Post Register
Lockhart, Texas, US
Thu, Feb 12, 2004
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