[or-roots] Are you still there?

[JudyRobertson39 at aol.com]

The worst of the winter of 49 & 50 happened on January 13th of 1950 (yea-it 
was Friday) We had a blizzard in Eastern Washington that you could not see 100' 
for most of the day.  It was more like night with the wind howling all the 
time.  Several people froze to death or were sick and unable to get to a doctor 
in time to save themselves.  I was living in Harrington.  We got out of school 
for Christmas vacation and did not go back to school until after the first of 
March due to road conditions.  No TV in those days so the parents taught the 
children to play pinocle-canasta and every other card and board game 
imaginable.  We also traded jigsaw puzzles between families to keep from going 
completely nuts.  My aunt and uncle found a man in a car stuck in a drift about a mile 
from home when they were out feeding cattle and took him home.  wrapped him 
up by the fire and he still shook all day.  No we don't seem to often get 
storms like that any more.  I am sort of fascinated by the power of mother nature 
but hate to see the human suffering that extreme weather seems to bring on
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