1969 sounds right. I was a junior in high school. The Rose City buses stopped running before they let us out of school! To this day I don't remember snow that deep here in Portland. A neighbor boy met me halfway home with a sled and pulled me home! [email protected] wrote: According to the website I found on the National Weather Service Forecast Office for Portland (which lists all the major snowstorms) the year was 1969 - January 25 - 31. Most of the valley floor got two to three feet of snow. Eugene got the incredible amount of forty-seven inches for the month of January, about thirty-four inches coming during this storm. Coos, Lane and Douglas had the most snow but Salem had about a foot too. I remember how awful it was - we had a young woman with us from Lebanon who drove a Volkswagon bug to a meeting in Salem. It was literally buried under a huge snowdrift on Front Street here in Salem and it was many days before she could get it out. A friend with chains on his car managed to bring her here and she stayed with us for quite a few days. She also could not drive her Volkswagon bug on the freeway back to Eugene because it would just get "high centered" because of the snow in the center of the tire tracks. She was stuck in Salem for quite a while. I still don't think it was as bad as the ice storm of 2004 - 2005 that kept many of us trapped for a week or more. Mimi Stang ==== ORFORUM Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe, send a message to [email protected] that contains (in the body of the message) only the single word: unsubscribe ============================== Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. New content added every business day. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx --------------------------------- Discover Yahoo! Stay in touch with email, IM, photo sharing & more. Check it out!