Jan. 30, 2010

Tell about the worst winter storm that you can remember as a child.

I would suppose that the worst storm was in September and I don’t remember which year. The leaves were still on the trees and we had a big snow storm while we were at school. That night as we were going home on the bus we couldn’t make it into our yard. The snow on the trees had broken several limbs and one of them was a large limb from the Walnut tree by the side of the house and then right around the corner was a large cottonwood tree that had fallen across the road and landed on the corner of the house where the fruit room was built. I don’t remember if the house was damaged or not but the bus had to back out a half mile to get turned around. Dad finally moved the tree by strting the little D4 Cat that we had and often had to use to move the snow from our lane in the winter time. Later in that year as the snow melted we ended up having to walk that half mile each time we came or went from the house because the runoff from the melting snow had washed out the road.