The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1921-11-24
SOME NOTABLE SNOW
STORMS OF VALLEY

While the Hood River valley at com
, paratively frequent intervals has ha
some very severe snowstorms, the on
that broke here Friday night sets
: new record for so early in the seasol
and for the amount of water volum
on the precipitation. The total snow
fall reached inches, the water vol
ume Of which, according to Lero,
Childs, cooperative United State
weather observer, was inches.
Old timers recall no date in the his
tory of the valley when November
snow was so deep. No eXistant writ
ings of pioneers 6record such snow
Thanksgiving day of 1894 the snow
was 25 inches deep and the tempera
ture was zero, according to Sam G,
Campbell.
The introduction of a report of q
snow storm of February, 1916. appears
in the Glacier for February 10, 1916,
as follows:
Before the original sin of Adam
and Eve. the weather, unendingly
charming in the Garden Of Eden, was
the cause of but little worry, and the
little that is chronicled about it reads
like the words of a boosters club of
some southwestern community. The
first great record made by Jupiter Plu-
vius was on that memorable occasion
when the Honorable Mr.. Noah built
the Ark and fioated off safely with his
cargo of couples following the 40 days
and 40 nights of deluge. Since that
day to this the weather, be it hot or
be it cold, be it wet or be it dry, has
taken up much Of the energy and time
of contemporary historians. The
weather has become the staple com
modify of conversation. Record rain
falls, record freezes are bon mots to
the aged, and when the present gener-
alton reaches the venerable period of
the eveningtime of life. not one of
them will forget the storm of the first
week of February, 1916. The snow on
that occasion attained a depth of 81
inches. The O.-W. r. & N. line was
blockaded for four days.
The first severe snow on record oc-
Cured in the winter of 1928 and is
reported by Elizabeth Laughlin Lord
in her "reminiscences of Eastern Ore |
gon. The snow lasted for months, |
attained great depth and caused the |
loss of many head of cattle. The |
Lauglhin family was so discouraged |
that they moved back to The Dalles, |
their home, early in the
spring.
In l86l-63. according to the chroni-
lie Of ID. A. Turner, pioneer of the
yalley, the winter was very severe,
md the toal snowfall reached 13 feet.
Record severe weather also pre-
yailed here, beginning February 10,
889. f. G. Sherrieb, pioneer rancher,
elling of this says
'At that time it is probable that
ecord precipitation for "a hours pre-
allied here. From o'clock February
0 until the same hour the next day
our feet of snow fell. "
Mr.. Sherrieb says the snowfall Of
1856, which blockaded an O. r. q N.
rain for IA days near Viento, was
cry similar to that just prevailing
ere in that the precipitation was dry
leet. 1t was necessary to pack pro-
isions to the snowbound passengers
18th handsleds. G. A. McCurdy, Oak
rove orchardist and formerly presi-
ent of the old Hood River Applegrow-
rs Union, was engineer of the loco F.
Iotive drawing the snowbound train.
Three feet of snow fell here in 1912, 9
hen train service was annulled for 36 /
ours.
Following over 80 inches of snow in
)l9, the valley December l8 suffered
record low temperature of q degrees
Glow zero. Many apple trees were