Perish the thought!

I was telling me dad that we hadn't had any snow to speak of this year and was worried about a drought in the spring. He reminded me then, of the blizzard of 1948/49(?)can't remember which it was. Anyway, he said it was warm and dry all winter until just after the first of January, then the snow came. It blew and drifted and fell through, with no let up, to March something. No one went anywhere, my brother remembers tunnels to the doors of houses and, when they could get to them, huge long trainloads of thousands of dead cattle, frozen stiff, caught out where no cowboy could get to them.

Apparently someone is thinking along the same lines as my dad. When I went looking for info I found a recent article on what happened in South Dakota then, at Deadwood Magazine. It was weird, just as now, blizzard one day, 55 degrees the next, then unrelenting blizzard. In a timeline for wyoming, 1949 has one entry: Severe blizzard closed down whole state.

So...maybe your trip is double timely, Kendall! Leave it to a Yankee to be canny about such things.**BG**