[or-roots] Snow, Floods, Etc

[JudyRobertson39 at aol.com]

I too recall the winter of 1968-69.  We lived in Spokane in our first home.  
My husband was traveling on the road in his work in those days and by spring I 
was a nervous wreck.  We had a beautiful mild fall.  tomatoes from the garden 
at Thanksgiving and roses still blooming about the same time.  Sun shone 
gloriously on Christmas Day.  By New Year's weekend it was 42 below zero in Moscow 
Idaho and not a lot warmer in Spokane.  It did not warm up till March and 
there was still unmelted snow on the north side of 5 mile prairie on April 15th.  
We shoveled the snow off of the roof of the house and then walked off the 
roof onto the piles that surrounded the house.  At one point UPI said Spokane had 
more snow on the ground than anywhere in the lower 48.  I believe the 
official total was 45 inches.  (there was 92 inches as I recall in 49-50)  But in 68 
the stuff just would not melt.  When the plows finally came by and plowed our 
street we wound up with 4' of solid ice in the driveway.  Lots of flu that 
year and people with cars that would not start because it was so extremely cold.
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