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The first heavy snow fell on the thirteenth of November, five days after Adelaide's birthday, which she did not celebrate. Twenty-two inches before it let up. The first death followed soon after.
Frank Baluca, three years old, got up from bed in the night and tried to walk to the outhouse by himself. Too sleepy to realize the snow stood as tall as him. In the morning his father found him, halfway between the well and the home; he'd been wearing only a nightshirt. There was blood in the snow, a side effect of his struggle to stay warm. That's what his parents thought. They wouldn't be able to bury him until the spring thaw.