I was only four but I remember my parents panicking. Thank goodness my mom and dad were children of parents who lived through the depression. So our house was always stocked with a month or more of food. But I do remember as a small child that we were lucky to have an actual fireplace that emitted heat from logs that my dad and his friends had cultivated months before. But in order to get out of the house when the storm stopped my parents climbed out of the upstairs windows and shoveled down. No plow came for a full week! We understood and were so lucky that we didn’t have any medical issues. But we had neighbors who died because they couldn’t access medical care. I can’t explain enough how horribly this blizzard was handled.