March 29, and we have this...

[Lee Branum]

Now folks, we have had a lot of snow around these parts this winter. It's been since who knows when since we've had this much. It had finally started to melt, and we lost all of it but about a foot square patch on the north side of the house...then last night, it started again. Now, I took the studded snows off the car right after the first of the month. Don't want to wear the highways any more than necessary. They've now increased the date by one week to remove studded snow tires in Washington State. Idaho has until April 30.

Here's what greeted us this morning about eight o'clock. I'd planned to work in the yard some this morning...but not with the snow blower.:eek:

[Jim Franklin]

March 30: It was snowing on my way home from our Sunday night Bible study here in Boise with a bitterly cold wind along with it, Lee. We have church members who are fairly well snowed in at Idaho City 20 some miles to the Northeast of the city. This Old Man Winter doesn't seem to want to give up easily. I still prefer snow to rain but not necessarily this late. Our irrigation canals are about to be filled. Wonder if I will get to ice skate on them.

[Desiree Allen-Baker]

It's been snowing lightly here in Denver, too. No surprise here, it's been known to snow here in June! We're a freaky state, and we like it. :laughing

[Jim Franklin]

Yes, and I heard that there was a 75 car pileup behind a jack-knifed semi with a fatality.

[Lee Branum]

I usually have raked the yard by now and have a bunch of spring work done, but not this year. It's snowing again and has all morning. Unbelievable...
The picture would look the same, no need to post another...Hmmmm.

LeeB:basic04

[Jim Franklin]

Where I lived in the mountains outside of Red Lodge, MT in 1975-76 it snowed on June 10, 1976 and we had guests from Oklahoma.

[Carsten Schermuly]

I do not understand governments.
They should know, winters do cost energy and money.
Winters are a hinderance for business and trade.
Why governments do nothing against winters?

Only onetimes I have heard about a related action of officials. Two years ago some towns in the Thuringia forest got too much snow, the town majors have seen the only way to sell it.
People really have bought snow - and it was extraordinairy much snow.

Building and transportation companies have lend out engines and trucks - they could not use for business because the cold, construction must rest and wait for better weather with temperatures over Zero. So they used this time to deliver snow.

People gave ten Euro for a truck load snow, ten Euro for salt to spread where the snow has been and ten Euro as fee to use engines and truck. A truck was load with snow from a towns streets and places (especially hospitals and schools yards) and the buyer must order where to place - in a river or in a lake - there has been a short catalogue of targets. Buyers could spread the salt by their own hand - if they liked to do that.

The effect was - the empty public cashes of towns was helped, the anti snow brigades of towns (in summers cleaning streets and gardening public parks) never could handle the giant masses of snow, was helped, people had their fun with, public life returned, bus lines could do their duties, children could reach schools, jobless building engines and truck drivers got jobs, etc etc etc
Every part taker was a winner.