Winter Weather Memories Week 6
Charlie Wilson of Weather History described the four-day snow and ice storm as the worst major ice storm in Oklahoma in more than a decade. The storm affected all but the southeast part of the state, with ice accumulations of a half to 1 inch. Local ice accumulations of 4 inches were reported at Cordell. More than 225 people were treated for injuries, after slipping on the ice. Charlie reports that there were at least 170 of the injuries in the Oklahoma City area. I called it 'The First Blizzard of My Life, and I Wasn't Prepared For It. This picture is of a later snow storm but it is very much like the one I went through and t his link is a picture of a road near where I drove in 1967 Lorraine, of "Olive Tree Genealogy Blog", invited us to join her in weather memories for the 'Sharing Memories a Genealogy Journal' . This is a memory I had just shared with my daughter while I was in California. I was 19 and working as a telephone operator in Okl...