[Vision2020] Fwd: [SPAM] Another Sunny Day in Moscow

Wed Jan 23 11:22:58 PST 2008

The winter here in Moscow was bad in the winter of 68-69, but the worst I remember was the winter of 48-49 at our ranch in the Owyhees. It was below zero most of the time. Dad and I were out a horseback one day. We had to get off and walk to keep our feet from freezing. When we got in and looked at the thermometer, it was below-50. If it warmed up to +10 that winter it was a warm day. We had over 4 ft of snow that winter. I warmed up  once enough for the snow to crust. We could drive a team of horses and the led on top of the snow and over the top of the fences without braking through. It was a long winter, starting in early November and lasting into late April. Most of the ranchers ran out of hay and had to trail their cattle to Jordan Valley threw the snow. We were the only ones left in the Owyhees by spring. One day in late March a plane flew over while we were feeding the cattle. It  dropped a note, wanting to know if we were alright or needed anything. We waved them on.

Roger
-----Original message-----
From: "Darrell Keim" keim153 at gmail.com
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:08:42 -0800
To: "moscow vision 2020" Vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Fwd:  [SPAM] Another Sunny Day in Moscow

> Geez.  I can't believe it has already been 12 years since that cold, and
> following floods.  Now I'm feeling my age.  Thanks for bringing that up.
> 
> I grew up in Havre, MT.  45 below was not an unusual days high during the
> winter, and the wind almost never stopped.  I once went camping at 30 below
> (I've gotten smarter as I've aged.)    During school I'd go out over
> lunch to start the car, and let it idle long enough to warm-up, even though
> I had the radiator insulated and an engine heater plugged in.  Coldest I
> ever saw was 65 below.  That was simultaneously the days high and low!  The
> oil in my car froze.  If you spilled water on the ground it froze.
> Instantly.
> 
> Havre gets so cold that the high school football team is called the "Blue
> Pony's."
> 
> Anybody ever heard of a nosecicle?  Ever have one?
> 
> Later,
> Darrell
> 
> 
>  On 22/01/2008, Warren Hayman <whayman at roadrunner.com> wrote:
> >
> >  During a six-year stint of living in Richmond, VA, my wife and I always
> > chuckled when forecasters would use what became a stock cliche of "bitter
> > cold" when the low was 20 or so. It would literally spawn a run on milk and
> > bread at the grocery stores.
> >
> > On the other side, does anyone recall 12 years ago today and tomorrow here
> > in Moscow? We were living at the base of Moscow Mountain with a one-day-old
> > baby. The temps were, at our house, recorded by an accurate Taylor max/min
> > thermometer, in the -30's F with two feet of fallen snow. The drifts were so
> > intense that I did not need a ladder to walk up to the roof to remove ice
> > dams (yes it was that kind of house) with an axe and shovel. The later
> > floods (Feb, I think) took out our driveway to the tune of an 18-inch
> > channel twelve inches wide-- thank goodness for road graders with whom you
> > have developed a friendship!
> >
> > Warren Hayman
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > *From:* keely emerinemix <kjajmix1 at msn.com>
> > *To:* Kai Eiselein, editor <editor at lataheagle.com> ; bevbafus at verizon.net; Moscow
> > Vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com> ; Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
> > *Sent:* Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:12 PM
> > *Subject:* Re: [Vision2020] [SPAM] Another Sunny Day in Moscow
> >
> >
> > OK, like, once when I was growing up in Tucson the high was way low, like
> > maybe 24.  And the heater in the Rambler kinda didn't even work real well.
> > Yeah.  Whoa.
> >
> > (People from the Southwest never have good weather stories . . . )
> >
> > Keely
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > From: editor at lataheagle.com
> > > To: bevbafus at verizon.net; vision2020 at moscow.com; thansen at moscow.com
> > > Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:08:43 -0800
> > > Subject: Re: [Vision2020] [SPAM] Another Sunny Day in Moscow
> > >
> > > Try taking photos at -60 f. Its quite the procedure. The photo is of a
> > > January sunrise in Stebbins, AK about 20 years ago.
> > > Somewhere, I have photos of firefighters battling a blaze in Nome in
> > > December. You could literally watch the water freeze as it flowed down
> > the
> > > street.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com >
> > > To: <bevbafus at verizon.net>; "Moscow Vision 2020" < vision2020 at moscow.com
> > >
> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:00 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [Vision2020] [SPAM] Another Sunny Day in Moscow
> > >
> > >
> > > > Moscow has nothing on the North Slope Borough School District (Barrow,
> >
> > > > Alaska) located (as they say) on top of the world
> > > >
> > > > http://www.nsbsd.org/site/
> > > >
> > > > If you want a "sky box" for home football games, they suggest you
> > build a
> > > > plywood enclosure on top of your truck at the REAL frozen tundra:
> > > >
> > > > http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=tundra
> > > >
> > > > Tom Hansen
> > > > Moscow,
> > > > Idaho
> > > >
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