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<BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">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</BODY></HTML>