Anyone get much snow?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

In my travels, I see other areas with no ditches, just flat roads across the prairie. Do these areas never get snow or wind? Around here, if we plowed the snow off a flat road, and leave it banked up, it would drift full every day for the rest of the winter. All roads have deep ditches, and graders have wings pushing snow off into the ditch so it can't catch snow and drift the road shut.

[WiltonRanch]

In my travels, I see other areas with no ditches, just flat roads across the prairie. Do these areas never get snow or wind? Around here, if we plowed the snow off a flat road, and leave it banked up, it would drift full every day for the rest of the winter. All roads have deep ditches, and graders have wings pushing snow off into the ditch so it can't catch snow and drift the road shut.

In our hills there were lots of roads cut through hills with reasonable backsloping for average snowfall. In my years I have seen enough times where this was less than adequate. Lucky now most travelled roads have been brought up to higher grade and more backslope. Seen enough dozers opening roads going back and forth sideways. Worst I experienced was getting 4wd and dozer stuck after sliding off a road. Had to shovel it out. Took 3 hours and a front end loader digging around it. Got snowed in real bad during calving and couldn’t get out for a week until RM snowblower opened us up and managed to ride horse up to where cat was. Now cat comes home before March cause that is when our chances of these freak snows start. Anything can happen.

[Retired]

IN 1973 /74 winter I ran grader for county the snow was so deep in a lot of places all I could do was open a 1 lane path ,then they put a v plow on a 627 cat buggy and half a load of gravel ,that thing would open up roads at 18mi/hr,but when they hit big drifts they knocked off most of the fence posts.
Only way to see where the fence lines were was if there was trees as the fences were completely burried. Lots of flooding and late seeding in spring.

[Old Cowzilla]

Roads closed in 1968 same way here graders could not wing it out anymore. Narrow path down the middle one morning our school bus started to skid and caught the corner of snow bank and flipped. I still remember all the kids on the one side and the books and lunch kits flew over and landed on the kids on the other side. Bus had road blocked but other bus coming down hiway saw something wrong. Nobody hurt and cat pushed out road later that day. 8 years old but still I remember that like it was yesterday.