Volume 15 , Issue 8

Duchess of Weaselskin

Our reporter in Northwestern Oklahoma (Alva) reports that it started raining Sunday night around 10:15p.m., and turned to snow around 3a.m. Monday, 25 February 2013. By 10a.m. Monday morning there was an approximate accumulation of 3-inches. The blizzard part of the snow storm began in Alva around 11:30a.m.

By evening hours, 25 February 2013, in Alva, Woods county, Oklahoma, our reporter reports that 16 to 18 inches of snow had fallen, not counting the drifts, but it was hard to find a good measure amongst the drifts. This drift off of the west porch at our home in Alva, Oklahoma, was even with the three-step porch on the west side of the house. The brought on more drifting as the evening progressed, with winds to around 35 to 40 mph.

Also, our northwest Oklahoma reporter, sent me this image this evening showing the crabapple tree on the west side of our house in Alva, Oklahoma with 11 inches of snow packed on the north side of the tree trunk. It is kind of hard to see in this evening picture. But if you look close, you can make it out. Rob said later today, 3 to 4 miles west of Alva on highway 64 there were high drifts and the DOT had quit clearing the highway to that point.

Check out the back porch drifts at 11th & Maple Street, in Alva, Woods, Oklahoma, that our northwest reporter sent us this evening. Remember the the blizzard of 1971, when the drifts downtown, Alva, Oklahoma, were 10 foot drifts? And someone made a path through it so traffic could get thru. They say it was a couple of weeks before it was cleared. What about the blizzard of 1938 in Northwest Oklahoma?

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