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Winters were tough back then

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BowEd:
That would be 1 to remember too.
It's hard to imagine till you see it happen a number of times after the winter breaks and melts what the weight and pressure damage snow can do to things like bending steel,fence lines,buildings,and trees.
Farm equipment left parked in groves covered up with snow can show distorted frames bowed and bent once it melts.

Pappy:
WOW that's a lot of snow, we don't get anything like that here, maybe a bad one we might get a foot and that hasn't happened in several years, when I was a kid it always seemed to come a big snow between Christmas and New Years ,we would be out of school for an extra couple of weeks, don't happen much now, tomorrow is supposed to be 72 in the day time and low 60's at night, then by New years back to lows in the 20's weird weather for sure.  ;)
 Pappy

Stoker:
 We are having a white Christmas this year. 6" last night and -19
Thanks Leroy

gifford:
About 5 or 6 years ago we had two 10 inch snowfalls, a week apart. Took a heap of shoveling, then the city would plow and we would have to dig out again.

The black powder club's old firing line collapsed under the weight of the snow. So we salvaged what we could and burned the rest. New firing line built to last this time, we hope.

One of my MoJAM friends from northern Nebraska remarked 'y'all got our snowfall that year'.

YosemiteBen:
Some of the Sierra Nevada has about 200 inches! Here in Yosemite we have about two feet and it is still snowing. You can pull up Yosemite Webcams if you want a look around.

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