By: Paul S Cilwa Occurred: 12/1/1981Posted: 11/7/2025 Page Views: 364 Hashtags: #Blair #Nebraska #SnowPile #Winter How kids had fun in the snow before smartphones. Estimated reading time: 1 minute(s) (109 words) In the winter of 1981, Blair, Nebraska saw the kind of heavy snowfall that kept the town's plows busy day and night. These big trucks pushed the drifts off the streets, piling them high at the edges where the blades left behind towering mounds of packed snow. One of those plow-made hills became the perfect playground, and here we see Dottie, Karen, Jenny, and John climbing, sliding, and laughing together on the frozen heap. What began as routine winter maintenance turned into a stage for childhood adventure, with four siblings turning a leftover snowbank into their own mountain of joy. Your browser does not support the video tag.