Wind-blown snow

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Connie Jo Discoe/McCook Daily Gazette

A shopper, who said the horizontal snow and gusty winds don't bother her for a short, quick walk, waits in near-blizzard conditions for traffic at Norris and B in McCook at mid-morning today. Forecasters call for worsening weather, and the National Weather Service in Goodland has issued a wind chill warning through late Thursday afternoon. The advisory means that the arctic storm system slicing through the Golden Plains will create wind chill readings of -15 to -25 degrees. In conditions like this, frost bite can occur in less than 30 minutes and hypothermia may occur if warm clothing in layers, coats, hats and mittens are not worn when venturing outside.

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THIS REMINDS ME OF THE BLIZZARD OF 1949.

IT STARTED WITH HEAVY SNOW THEN WARM DAY THAT GLAZED OVER THEN WIND BLOWN SNOW COVERED THE ROADS FASTER THAN SNOW PLOWS COULD OPEN THE ROADS.

SOME AREAS IN WESTERN NEBRASKA HAD DRIFTS 20 FEET HIGH. RAILROAD STEAM ENGINE SNOW PLOW SLIPPED OFF TRACK IN A CUT AND SNOW BLEW INTO CUT SP THAT SMOKE STACK WAS ONLY VISIBLE.

ANY OTHER OLD TIMERS REMEMBER?

-- Posted by Old Guard on Wed, Jan 6, 2010, at 5:59 PM

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