[or-roots] Winter of 1967

[Connie Guardino]

Wasn't it the winter of 1967 that the University of Oregon closed it's
doors for the first time in history because of deep snow? Cars were
literally buried, and were skiing around downtown Eugene. I have a
picture of me knee deep in snow.

Betty Moreland wrote:

> Don't usually mqake a comment but I remeber "71 the siuslaw froze over
> and 63 the snow was up to 4' high no snow in Mapleton normally.
>
>      ----- Original Message -----
>      From:DAVIESW739 at aol.com
>      To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
>      Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 5:10 PM
>      Subject: Re: [or-roots] Are you still there?
>       We don't have to go back that far the Winter I bought my
>      place 1992 it snowed 8 inches and then it froze it was there
>      for more than week and all the little pickups that didn't
>      have 4 wheel drive were in the ditch on Fishback Hill. A
>      year or two before we were in Jacksonville and the temp was
>      10 below That was cold and roads were covered with ice from
>      the rain. No snow to make it easy driving on them. BRRRRrrrr
>      almost as bad as living in Wyoming in 1950. Walt Davies
>      Cooper Hollow Farm
>      Monmouth, OR 97361
>      503 623-0460
>
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