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

["Sandy Bolinger" <bolinger@bigsky.net>]

When we lived in south central Montana, the wind blew soo hard in the winter
that we had  to feed the horses and mules with the big one ton round
bales...if we fed the little square bales...it would all blow away before
the horses could get to it. When we lived in Central Montana  the kids'
school was 40 miles away (20 miles on a dirt road)...the school bus picked
them up at the end of our driveway...our driveway was a mile long.  So ,
more often then not in the winter...Jim would be infront of us on the giant
dozer...and plow to the school bus...the drifts were four and five feet.  By
the time we dropped the kids at the bus and headed back down the drive
way....it was already all drifted back in...When Whitney and I started
conditioning in the spring...the only place we could ride was on the plowed
county roads....the walls of snow on both sides of the road were so tall
that we couldn't see anything except the snow-covered road, the walls of
snow...and, of course, the bright blue sky!

----- Original Message -----
From: Dyane Smith <sunibey@sisqtel.net>
To: Heidi Smith <heidi@sagehillcmk.com>; Lucy C Trumbull
<elsie@foothill.net>; RideCamp <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 7:07 AM
Subject: RC: Re: Re: Re: RE: Snow/bitter climates


> 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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