LT Don is NEVER OK! Just ask hin!!
I got home Wed night in the predictions of freezing rain and snow. I was
lucky to get home. All the roads are pretty much shut down while the wind
howls. If an ambulance is needed out of town, it goes behind a
snowplow. The national Guard is rescuing those foolish enough to try to
travel yesterday. All the roads N-S between Polk County (Des Moines) and
Story County (Ames) are closed and impassable, including I-35 and US 69. I
had planned to use yesterday to cut up all the downed limbs from the storm
last weekend, but I decided to wait until after this storm.
This is very much like the April 22 Blizzard in 1973 except that one
hammered eastern Iowa and this one hammered western Iowa. the really deep
stuff is from Omaha to just west of Des Moines. After that one, I drove
across I-80 in my Black 200D through a channel cut in the snow. Most of
the drifts were 15-25 feet high. It was truly amazing.
This is just a reminder of the insignificance of human endeavors and why
the term "blizzard" was invented here.
I am still waiting for global warming to occur, so we can have a tropical
climate here like we had a few geological ages ago.
This wind is supposed to let up this afternoon and I will start to shovel
out then.
Loren
66 200D, Black
et al
At 11:39 PM 3/1/2007, you wrote:
I hear Iowa got shut down with a blizzard. Are you homebound now?
Craig
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