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Message: <blockquote data-quote="db-2" data-source="post: 246287" data-attributes="member: 4743">Not sure about 75 years ago but:In the fifties my older sisters would stay in town with an aunt during the winter in order to go to school.  That was due to snow and roads.For me I do not remember every spending a winter in town but went to school by the family car and maybe I guess a horse or two in a enclosed wagon with a coal stove inside (can not remember what they were call).  A lot times dad would just drive across the fields as the roads where block with snow.  And there where no 4x4 for us back then.  It was the family car.  A 49 olds would go through anything with a shovel, steel at that(but one time I remember a bunch of crawler tractors came out to open the roads).I am sure the temp were just as cold back then.  I do remember in the early 70s working for a rancher and feeding cattle two days in a roll when it was the high -40 below but no wind (his two kids went to school that day).  Old Oliver 88 and 46 IHC KB5 both started those mornings to feed with.But by high school for me the school had closed down and I began riding a bus and in those days the heaters where worthless.But do not remember once not going to school due to cold but a time or two due to a snow storm.  Guess better to be safe than sorry but it has changed (it was a bitch getting out of bed to drive to work this morning).  Last Saturday night I passed a greyhound school bus going about 15 MPH on a rural hwy.  About 20 miles down the road I met another greyhound school bus from the same school going towards the first bus. Nice to have that communication for help now days. DB</blockquote>

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