Corvallis had 3 feet of snow. When they plowed the downtown streets, they plowed into the middle lane so for weeks until the snow melted you could only switch at the corner, and had to decide a block ahead if you were in the right lane for your turn at the next corner. Portland had quite a bit of snow just before Christmas in 1964. I remember that it started snowing on us as I came home for Christmas break. That was the year that it warmed up very fast after Christmas and there was major flooding, especially in Northern California. Nedra > 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! > > > ==== ORFORUM Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe, send a message to [email protected] that > contains (in the body of the message) only the single word: unsubscribe > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >