Feb 1983 brought 30 plus inches of snow to the South Plains. That winter we got down into the lower teens a few times. It was blasted cold. The big snow didn’t melt totally away for almost a month.

We walked around Abernathy after the snow. Farmers came to town and plowed the roads. I still remember making a left to get in the driveway over a big hump of frozen slush/snow.

We had a whiteout that winter, too. Wound up sliding into a ditch and walking a mile in deep snow to the in-laws house.

When it starts warming up in Jan, I always warned to not get complacent till March 1. Feb always has a trick or two up her sleeve.

We got a couple more inches here as well. It seems that every time things start to dry out, along comes more precipitation. The gravel roads will remain mud and that brush pile I have will never be burned apparently.

Northern CO Front Range about 4″ of very dry snow. Looks like my friends/relatives on the Western Slope are having a four wire winter (most use a 4 strand barbed wire fence). That is good for all the Colorado River users.

To the north WYO is having a hellacious winter. So glad I’m not driving those roads as part of earning a living!

Growing up in Noo England I remember them being proactive and throwing salt down the afternoon before any sizable overnight storm was forecast to hit.
An old saw was that the number of hours before midnight that the snow starts would equal the number of hours that snowfall continued after midnight – don’t forget to use 1am during Daylight Savings time. It was always fun to check on whether that trick worked.
Also, the size of the salt chunks from the spreader trucks was a clue – if they were small 1/4″ or 3/8″ bits then the roads would be pretty clear the next morning for work and school – but when on a clear afternoon at 4pm the big 5/8″ – 3/4″ cubes came out like large gaming dice , well you could take a chance on blowing off your homework that night…

That salt really tore into the early Japanese import cars of the 1970s. Everybody with a Honda Civic would get paint bubbles in their quarter panels after the 4th winter of ownership. Fiats also corroded very quickly and the Spider probably fared the worst. You could hear them rust in the silence of your garage. American cars might make 7-8 years before the acne started. The scrap engine market had plenty of New England engines to ship out after the rest of the car frames flaked away like French pastries.