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Beekissed
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They closed the whole state!!!! 
Was that 8.5 in. of snow or 8.5 FEET of snow....I could see it if it were feet of snow.
Was that 8.5 in. of snow or 8.5 FEET of snow....I could see it if it were feet of snow.
Beekissed
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They got the dates wrong on that upper pic...it was '77 and I remember it well. They didn't close school that year and the snows covered our house. Later on that year they closed school for a week in our county due to the smells created by ramp season.
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wow Bee Ramps are very expensive here .Restaurants buy them up.
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I would imagine that, nowadays, they might close school for a week to have all hands ready to harvest. That's basically how summer vacation started (people needed their kids on the farm to help out.)
majorcatfish
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They closed the whole state!!!!
thanks for catching that typo ........8.5 inches
Carol Dee
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@majorcatfish I was not driving the blizzard winter of 78.
But did start driving about 12 years later. And when we would have many snows of accumulation the county roads began to look like that. There where places snow was piled so high and got so narrowed down to only one vehicle at a time could pass through. If you meet some one in the passage the one closer to their end would have to back out! So glad we have not gotten snow like that lately. (I am getting too old!)
But did start driving about 12 years later. And when we would have many snows of accumulation the county roads began to look like that. There where places snow was piled so high and got so narrowed down to only one vehicle at a time could pass through. If you meet some one in the passage the one closer to their end would have to back out! So glad we have not gotten snow like that lately. (I am getting too old!)
Beekissed
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Around these parts they sell them $4-$5 a bunch~a bunch will fill a gallon ziploc bag~ to the tourists and city folks, fresh dug that morning. My brother grows some in his tiny garden in town.
In the parts of WV where they are most plentiful, they have ramp suppers, ramp pizza for sale in the local pizza places, ramp dinners, etc. to raise money for this or that thing.
People are starting to get the message over in OH...they've taken to growing ramps in U-Pick plots, so my brother who grows a little of his own went and picked many, pickled and canned them.
I like the bottoms gently sauteed in butter, but I'm not a HUGE fan of the ramps. The smell just lingers in one's pores the more you eat them and it becomes overwhelming to the senses when a whole school of people have been eating them for weeks.
Great vermifuge, though, and helped the mountain folks purge their parasites each spring.
In the parts of WV where they are most plentiful, they have ramp suppers, ramp pizza for sale in the local pizza places, ramp dinners, etc. to raise money for this or that thing.
People are starting to get the message over in OH...they've taken to growing ramps in U-Pick plots, so my brother who grows a little of his own went and picked many, pickled and canned them.
I like the bottoms gently sauteed in butter, but I'm not a HUGE fan of the ramps. The smell just lingers in one's pores the more you eat them and it becomes overwhelming to the senses when a whole school of people have been eating them for weeks.
Great vermifuge, though, and helped the mountain folks purge their parasites each spring.
flowerbug
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frying in oils makes the smell come through in the body oils. eating raw, not sure, but perhaps not so bad. never knowingly had them. if they're like an onion i'd probably like them.
