[or-roots] Are you still there?

[Ray Powell]

The winter of 1968 - 69 had over a foot of snow in  SE Portland OR with some drifts up to 5 ft against houses and other buildings. I remember driving my little sports car places where people with much bigger vehicles were afraid to even try going. It doesn't sound like we had it near as bad as the 1949 storm though.

Ray Powell
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Connie Guardino 
  To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 
  Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 1:48 PM
  Subject: Re: [or-roots] Are you still there?


  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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