My neighbor, Joanne shares her lilacs with us – the bushes sit alongside her house and lean over so we can get the benefit of their great smelling flowers. I appreciate both Joanne and her lilacs.
The Blizzard of 1949
The other day I noticed the flower buds are starting to push out and I got to thinking about all the springs this old house has seen. I suppose the most welcome springs for the home’s residents would have been 1933, the year of the Siberian Express and then The Blizzard of 1949.
The Siberian Express of 1933
A month before FDR took office and in the depths of the Great Depression, a record breaking cold snap hit North America. It began on February 6 with temps of 90 below zero in Verkhoyansk, Siberia. On February 9 Wyoming’s coldest recorded temperature, 63 below was noted in Moran; Montana had its coldest temp ever the same day in West Yellowstone – 66 below zero!
(from: http://www.shmoop.com/news/2010/02/18/6-worst-winter-storms-history/ and http://www.oregonphotos.com/pagetwentyone-Q-1.html#anchor46827)
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| Original in Carbon County Museum |
The Blizzard of 1949
Search the Internet for Blizzard 1949 and you will find photos of the storm’s aftermath – snow piled higher than roof tops, locomotive engines buried, highways with a wall of snow on either side.
New Years Day saw the start of the storm and big sections of central and eastern Wyoming were buried. Some rural residents were marooned for weeks. (from: http://uwacadweb.uwyo.edu/ROBERTSHISTORY/cold_winters_buffalo_bones.htm)
This year we had a mild winter, but everyone in the region knows the next one may be a doozie. So I join my neighbors who are outside on this lovely March day celebrating spring.
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