April 28th, 2021
“Snow”
By Jim Culp
This morning I was watching some news, and the weather guy
said that we can rest assure that the Midwest is pretty well out of range for
any more snow-storms.
I started thinking (don’t know why) about my Mom and how she
loved the snow we would get in Silver City. Then I started thinking about Uncle
Albert, who lived in Coeur D Alene
for a major part of his life. In the last ten of them, he never owned an
automobile. He had a snow-mobile for winter; and a horse for summer.
He visited us in Silver City
one year, and told us many stories about the brutal winters in his area of
Northern Idaho. He lived semi-remote, because that was how he liked it.
Coeur D Alene, Idaho receives
an average snowfall of 69.8 inches of snow each year. That’s an incredible
amount of snow. When I worked Kansas DOT in the nineties, our area received
17.2 inches per year. There were times when we plowed 12 on / 12 off for 4-5
days. I can’t imagine receiving almost seventy inches of snow in a winter… hell;
you may as well sleep at the shop.
Memories of the winters I
have been through are plenty cold and wet, but I only had a few here and there
where it was really bad, especially at Fort Riley.
Just my thoughts on paper
today…
Thanks for reading!
-Jim
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