Re: Re: Re: RE: Snow/bitter climates

["Dyane Smith" <sunibey@sisqtel.net>]

Wyoming was like that.  The good thing was that the wind usually uncovered
the fields so the livestock could eat.  The challenge was that the snow
would drift against the fences and everyone would walk out.  On the other
hand, in those faraway days, there weren't many fences anyway.

Dyane


OnTuesday, January 01, 2002 7:26 PM, Heidi Smith wrote:

>I remember three winters in Eastern
> Montana when I was a kid, and that was really tough, because the chinook
> winds would come through, getting temps up around 50 or 60, and then an
> Arctic front would come through, plunging temps down around -40F, which
> isn't counting wind chill.  That could happen in the space of a few hours.
> It was tough on livestock, too.
>

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