Hate to say it, but winter is only just getting underway. In fact, this weekend.

And we've already had some pretty vicious snowstorms and freezing temps.

But winters in the past have not only been colder and snowier than we've seen recently.

Folks a century or two ago had way fewer resources to deal with it all.

I'm Patty Steele, surviving 45 degrees below zero and 25-foot snow drifts

with no snow plows or central heat. That's next on the backstory. This is an I-Heart podcast.

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We're back with the backstory.

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

That's a quote, usually attributed to Mark Twain, but was probably from another writer, Charles Warner,

who worked with Twain and was a pal. Either way, we all complain when it's too hot, or this time of

year, too cold. But imagine a time when it was

way colder and there was no central heat, no snow plows, and really no stores to run to last

minute to stock up on all the stuff we weirdly think we need during a snowstorm, like milk, bread,

eggs, ice cream, and plenty of junk food.

All right, let's go back to the winter of 1804 and 1805.

It was unbearably cold across the country.

It started out with the great snow hurricane.

It was an unusual tropical storm that dumped tons of snow

and brought devastation to New England in October of 1804, leading up to the deep winter.

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