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It’s 10 days before winter is supposed to arrive, but since it’s here already I thought it might be 
instructive to tell you how bad it can get. Sixty years ago, all hell broke loose across south-central Idaho. Folks were snowbound and schools were closed for weeks at a time. Food had to be airdropped to stranded motorists on U.S. Highway 30 in the Magic Valley’s east end. The winter of 1948-49 remains the second-coldest on record, blowing in during first week of January when temperatures fell to minus-8 in Twin Falls and minus-29 in Fairfield. But the second week in January, high winds had closed roads and forced the cancellation of even makeup school days on Saturdays. Then the granddaddy of all blizzards landed on Jan. 15/Steve Crump, Twin Falls Times-News. More here.
Question: Which winter experience was the worst that you’ve had?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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coeurgenx on December 11 at 3:20 p.m.
what ever year that Ice Storm was arund here sure SUCKED! No Power for days and trees down everywhere. Maybe sucked more cause I didnt have a very good car that year.. I did go deer hunting one day about the same time and heard and saw a large tree (60+ft) snap at its base, under the intense pressure from all the snow piled up on it, as it flew up into the air like pogo stick before landing to the ground in a puff of snow. something I will never forget seeing, super creepy!
mike_s on December 11 at 5:46 p.m.
Between this and the Rupert German POWs, I’m beginning to think Steve Crump is just making all of this up. ;-)
Arch_Druid on December 11 at 6:59 p.m.
68/69 and no that is definitely NOT making things up.
Escapee on December 12 at 8:47 p.m.
The winter of 1968 was a classic, for sure. As I recall, school was cancelled for most of January. Tons and tons of snow.