69 from kc to decatur is still an awful nice trip when you have the time. I always pull off of 35 at KC, if I'm not behind the curve, and chill out while i'm enjoyin' the drive to Decatur. Of course that always gives me the opportunity to tell everyone in the car about the old bugaboo legend of the kid that got bit to death by a nest of water moccasins in the Grand River.....I think we were all, at least the boys, were told that to keep us out of there.....mac @ Killeen, Texas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie Goeken" <jackie2@ruraltel.net> To: <IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 9:59 PM Subject: [IADECATU] Re: Snowy Day > I do have another snow story to tell. I was in Nurses' Training in Kansas City, MO and was supposed to go home for Christmas Vacation. I don't remember how much it snowed, but Highway 69 was completely blocked going North out of KC. They finally got one lane traffic opened on Dec.24th. I got on the Greyhound Bus in KC, MO and the drifts on both sides of 69 were as high or higher than the Greyhound Bus. We didn't have Interstate 35 in those days. How many of you remember going to KC, Mo on 69? To make a long story short, I was never so glad to see the Greyhound Depot in Leon, IA as I was that Christmas Eve. Better yet, my daddy was there to meet me and take me home to Garden Grove, IA. That was one of the best Christmas vacations I've ever had.... > Oh, by the way, it was Zero degrees here at 9:30 PM according to the weather channel. Says we're supposed to be 5 degrees at 6:00 AM Friday. Don't think the temperature watches the Weather Channel here or it would know it's not supposed to be Zero now. We don't have any winds though. Ha! > > Jackie in the still frozen Tundra of NWKS > > > ==== IADECATU Mailing List ==== > Stacey Dietiker, Momdit@aol.com: Decatur County List Administrator, > Website Coordinator, Decatur County IA Genweb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~iadecatu > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429