![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 16, six more than the 24-inch January average has already fallen. Thus began the blizzard, but snow has been coming in record amounts - 32 inches in December, 12 inches over average. The people from up north brought enough for Monday, too. His sage words to this high school senior: Stay out of the restaurant. In 1969, Sunday in Idaho is dry, but skiers from the country up north, ever prepared for such emergencies, have broken out private supplies of alcohol and are having cocktails with their eggs. They can’t get to Schweitzer, which is closed anyway. A foot of fine snow has sifted in under the door. I face into the blowing snow and begin the wade through two feet of snow to the motel on Fifth. 30, I open the back door to go to work at Travler’s Motel and – holy snow flakes! The walks are full. My recollection – augmented by others’ memories and archives at the museum - is this:ĭec. It quit – finally - in 1969, after six weeks of winter on steroids. The Blizzard of ’69 actually started in 1968. ![]()
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