It was over quick but one day of spring was better than no day spring

 

February 21, 2018

The piles of snow created from cleaning the post office parking lot in Chinook have been removed several times this winter. The piles soon begin to grow again, at times creating traffic problems where space is lost to the snow piles.

One month ago I wrote a story for the paper titled "Finally, warmer weather allows locals to 'dig out.'" Readers may recall we had a brief warmup in mid-January, of a couple of days, and snow removal and clean up began in earnest. Before my story about the warm up could run in the paper, the bottom fell out as far as weather and we plunged back into frigid temperatures and more snow, snow and snow ad nauseum. I had to scrap that story and hope for another warmup.

The recent spring-like day on Valentine's Day was a needed break in an otherwise very harsh winter. Sure, it never got much above...



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