New Carlisle residents hard at work clearing snow following Wednesday storm

NEW CARLISLE, Ind. -- People in New Carlisle are experiencing a winter wonderland, thanks to heavy snowfall Wednesday and Thursday.

One homeowner telling ABC57 he measured around a foot and a half of snow on his property Thursday morning.

As the snow fell outside the house 81-year-old Charles DeMeyer has called home for more than 4 decades, all he could think was one thing: "here we go."

"I wouldn't have it any other different. It's a reason for me to get my lazy butt up in the morning and get out here and do something and once you get moving, you're alright, you're ready to go," said DeMeyer, a resident of New Carlisle.

DeMeyer has been hard at work since 7 this morning, clearing the snow, but also making sure his many cows don't go hungry, or suffer from the cold.

Living in New Carlisle for as long as he has, he says this type of all day job is something he's gotten used to and gotten good at.

"I started about 730. It'll be closer to about 5 o'clock, because when I get to the barn and stuff, I need to put a bucket on here and I'll have to bucket that out," said DeMeyer.

Just up the road, keeping livestock safe and fed is the name of the game for Karen Cenkush.

She has chickens and knows exactly what needed to be done when she found out the storm was headed her way.

"We have heated water dispensers for them, we have plywood that my husband put up to keep the wind from blowing on them, they have a heated bed with the cedar shavings, and we make sure there's plenty of feed out there for them," said Cenkush, a New Carlisle resident.

Cenkush and her husband have lived at this spot for more than a decade, in a house that's been in their family for more than a century.

But this storm had even these Lake Effect snow veterans a bit taken aback.

"In the past 12 years, that's the fastest I've seen snow come in, Scott said it's been a long time, he's thinking '78, '77, the big storm then, but he doesn't remember the last time it was that fast and that hard coming in," said Cenkush.