[or-roots] Snow, Floods, Etc

[Mary-Lou]

I remember that winter.  I was in high school in The Dalles.  If I remember
correctly, we had a silver thaw that year.  What a mess.

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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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