Sunday, February 1, 2015

Pictures Of The Blizzard Of Feb. 1


How does the Blizzard of Feb. 1, 2015, compare with those of previous decades to hit the Dorchester area?

For those old enough to remember more than five decades or more, this one probably cracks the top 20 list.  It doesn't match the severity of the blizzard of Christmas 2009, or the blizzard of 1978, as was mentioned on our Facebook page earlier today.  It certainly doesn't touch the blizzards of the 1950s that made Nebraska look like Antarctica. 

Still, this storm is going to be talked about for a while, if only for the fact that the weather experts were forecasting only 1-3 inches just a few hours before the first flakes fell on Saturday, Jan. 31.

We are told many of Dorchester's streets are still impassable and that the county roads are just plain treacherous.  Howling northwest winds are drifting shut passages that were opened just minutes earlier.

Because you should be staying put until conditions are safe, here are some of the pictures of the Dorchester area today that we've found on Facebook, and others that were e-mailed to the Times.   (Click on each picture for a better view.)










4 comments:

  1. Thanks for the look around town that we have all been dying to go see. This was a nice "virtual" tour that most of us would have had to walk home from if we had done it in person.

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  2. Blizzard of 1888 and Blizzard of 1949. Czech them out on Google.

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  3. ..... you guys are wimps ........................... my cattle and i didnt even notice the weather had changed ........................... my wife sits on her rump and watches us from the window ............................ tonight is her turn to break the ice on the stock tank ...................................... i am letting her come inside every two hours to warm up .......................................

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  4. Probably nothing you are seeing will compare to the 50's when I used to help my old buddy Rog Schmidt deliver news papers in the snow.

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