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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Are you affected by Global warming?
  • Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:25:54 -0800

There are no records up here prior to 1850, or at least no acknowledged records because there were no white men. However, the records since then have been kept faithfully.

Way back when there was no way to get into or out of the valley for months at a time during the winter. The Summit (3660' and the northerly route out) would be closed down anywhere from Christmas until sometime around April or May. There wasn't a southerly route until the 1900s and it would be closed from Thanksgiving on. Parts of 36 (running east/west and the only way out of the south end of the valley) are still only one lane and a rather interesting trip! We recommend it in the winter for anyone who likes white knuckle rides <g>

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>

Lynda's post reminded me of a visit to Heartwood about fifteen years
ago by a lady then in her forties. She said that as a child she had
lived upholler for several years; her father had run a portable
sawmill. In fact, the engine that powered that sawmill came out of an
old car, the remainder of which still sits at the edge of the woods.
Anyway, I commented that she had had a long walk to school, about
three miles, up and down two pretty steep hillsides, and that would
have been especially onerous during snow time. She replied, "It
didn't snow then."

During the years between her residence and the current time I have
seen hard winters where the snow stayed on the ground from about
Thanksgiving until sometime in March. In recent years it is rare to
have snow that stays on the ground for three days. I offer this as
information that may support the premise that what we are calling
global warming may in fact simply be part of yet another normal cycle.





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