Today it is snowing and school has been cancelled. February 7, 1978 Massachusetts had one of its worst winter storms. Tons of snow for 32 hours, electricity was out and 1000's of people were stranded on the highways for traffic didn't move on the highways for three days. We lived at Imperial Avenue in Leominster. When the storm ended I went outside with Kelley and Aaron and we create a huge giant dinosaur from the piled up snowbank. It was a great looking dinosaur! I thought it would even look better if it had color. We got all of our green food coloring and mixed it with water and we spread it over our dinosaur. It looked spectacular for the first day. Little did I realize that the green color would turn yellow. Our dinosaur looked like every neighbor dog had visited and left his mark. We now had a beautiful "yellow" dinosaur.
Our backyard was built up with a series of railroad ties that created a five foot drop off at the end of our yard. With all the snow the drop off was filled to the top. I told the kids to watch me. With a running head start I leaped into the abyss rear end first. Little did I know how deep it really was. I sank to the bottom with my feet in the air. I soon realized that I was in trouble for the snow was all around me and I was buried. I realized that the kids couldn't help me and they might even leave me there. Luckily I squirmed about and finally got upright and lived another day. I was very frightened by the ordeal of almost being buried alive!
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