Chapter 32: Jenna
The great Thanksgiving storm had entered its most ferocious stage. Friday had been bad, but the worst of the tempest occurred on Saturday as blizzard conditions prevailed throughout Ohio. By late in the day, snow depths reached twenty inches in eastern Ohio, and in some locations, drifts were piling up more than twenty-five feet deep. Winds as high as sixty miles per hour blew down wires and trees. Many buildings collapsed under the weight of the snow. A state of emergency was declared, and the Ohio National Guard used Jeeps to transport people to hospitals and to deliver food to rural homes. Apple Creek was an out-of-the-way village, and most of the people were fending for themselves, so the sight of Bobby Halverson’s plow out on the road was comforting and let people k
