(The picture has been removed...probably because I couldn't give credit for it, as I received it in an e-mail. Suffice it to say it was a "snow tunnel" where two lanes had been plowed down a highway, but the drifts on either side of the road were taller than the semis going through. I guess they have special "snow-blowers on steroids," to do this sort of work. Anyway, the snow was piled higher and wider than I've almost ever seen!)
I remember the winter before we moved to Missouri, we had the "blizzard of the century" where we had three feet of snow fall in a day. One of the north-south two lane roads in northern Illinois, close to where we lived, a regular truck route, was plowed just like this, with "drifts" taller than the tops of semis.
The only difference was that they only plowed ONE LANE, and left little pockets along the way so that if someone was coming in the other direction, you or they could pull over and let the other person pass. Now THAT'S snow!
Our blizzard here lasted a day, and two weeks later, the temperatures were back in the 40s, 50s, 60s, and the snow was gone on the streets though still piled high in parking lots, and that's disappearing fast.. I don't think the above snow will be gone by March 1st, do you???!!
And the above picture is from the North Dakota/Wyoming line, I believe.
I remember the winter before we moved to Missouri, we had the "blizzard of the century" where we had three feet of snow fall in a day. One of the north-south two lane roads in northern Illinois, close to where we lived, a regular truck route, was plowed just like this, with "drifts" taller than the tops of semis.
The only difference was that they only plowed ONE LANE, and left little pockets along the way so that if someone was coming in the other direction, you or they could pull over and let the other person pass. Now THAT'S snow!
Our blizzard here lasted a day, and two weeks later, the temperatures were back in the 40s, 50s, 60s, and the snow was gone on the streets though still piled high in parking lots, and that's disappearing fast.. I don't think the above snow will be gone by March 1st, do you???!!
And the above picture is from the North Dakota/Wyoming line, I believe.
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