I didn't get anywhere googling the Oregonian or National Weather Service that far back. This is not what you are looking for but this website describes the 10 worst weather events of the 20th century in Oregon. http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/pqr/paststorms/index.php The 1950 snow storm is described but not 1968. I remember the 1950 one well. It was fun to trudge through knee deep snow some two or three miles to Roosevelt high just to find out school was closed. Of course the distance gets longer every time I think of that beautiful morning.<grin> Maggie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carole Hammond" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 7:42 PM Subject: [GFO] Big snow of 1968? > When was the big snow that dumped +3 feet of snow on the Willamette Valley in the late 1960s? I > was thinking it was in January of 1968. Or was it 1969? > > I've been Googling for it for the last hour and can't come up with it. > > Thanks, Carole > > > ==== ORFORUM Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe, send a message to [email protected] that > contains (in the body of the message) only the single word: unsubscribe > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx >

I remember the snow of 1950, too....I had forgotten all about it. We had just moved to Eugene and we walked 15 blocks to the Mayflower Theater on the UofO campus. John Wayne was starring in Iwo Jima. Mama wore longjohns under her circle skirt. The year of the 1969 is important because I am writing a little story for posterity. My son thought it was earlier and that threw me for a loop but others have confirmed that it was January, 1969. After counting on my fingers I have decided that I was right in the first place. I want to thank all of you who wrote to me about the Big Snow of 1969! Some of you were on the road and trying to get home....I can't imagine what that would have done to my nervous system! I did get stuck in Portland during the Christmas vacation in Dec. 1992. It started snowing a day or so after Christmas and then it all turned into an ice storm. Thank goodness I my mother-in-law in town so I had a roof over my head. I wasn't able to drive back to Eugene until Jan 2nd or 3rd. I still don't "do" ice!