[Vision2020] Recalling Winters Past

[Sue Hovey]

And as I remember it, our schools resumed right after the end of the winter 
break, but yours and those in Sandpoint, etc. remained closed for most of 
January.  Yes, our winter was much milder, only below zero for a tolerable 
time. But you hardier folk had much more to contend with.

Sue H.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Marcy" <kmmos1 at verizon.net>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 3:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Recalling Winters Past


> On Sunday 03 February 2008 09:17, Tom Hansen wrote:
>> Those of you that have expressed your experiences with the Moscow Winter
>> of 1968/69 are right.  What we have here this winter barely qualifies as
>> a spring day in the park compared to Winter 1968/69.
>
> I missed the milder 1968/69 winter here in Moscow because I was still in
> Bonners Ferry attending my senior year of high school, and pumping
> gasoline, diesel, and changing and repairing flat tires on cars, pickups,
> and logging trucks. One evening at JB's Enco station downtown (now a
> parking lot by the new fire station) it got so cold that the gasoline 
> pumps
> froze, so gas customers went unserved. While I was spending my Christmas
> vacation earning $1.10 an hour outside at the station, my father and his
> father-in-law were outside shoveling snow from the main floor decking of
> the house they were constructing for our family. Those two men are gone,
> but the house still stands.
>
> According to the weather.com site, it got down to minus 23, 33, and 28 on
> the last three days of December, 1968, then and still the lowest
> temperatures on record for those days of the year in Bonners Ferry.
>
>
> Ken
>
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