Show T I 14 pt s 's r r f fo o q 9 s- s t sA v i N t j i y Y n 4 i I Ia j k kw w It I Ik h a T x J. J l 1 ft jo c. c t Y r v Jf 1 i i f. f tk U 1 p I ONCE THERE WAS a snowman tall tall tall The first snowman in Vernal in two years made his appearance on the lawn at West South Saturday morning as the heavy snow predicted for the Wasatch front blew in dumping 14 10 inches of the lovely wet stuff It snowed most of the day here with the promised promised pro pro- flurries hitting Duchesne City and points west Then the sun came out and the snowman's coal button eyes drooped his red smile sagged and he looked looked look look- ed at his snowy world with a over bent leer At last a snowman on the lawns of Vernal Oh what a blamed uncertain thing this pesky weather is isIt It and blew and then it thew and nd now by jing its it's friz But aut isn't it great Nowhere haVe we rd word Vord of r- r criticism except pt how V much the moisture VHS vas s needed and the hope that there would b be more of it Mark Snowbank officially went on record as promising the Uintah Basin area snow flurries and the Wasatch Front piles of the much needed fluff Maybe it was the high wind Friday night but whatever it was was those law- law abiding smokers non-smokers for a day good people from Roosevelt east to Vernal Duchesne must not have observed the Great American they they only recorded a couple of inches got the snow and the Wasat Wasal i Fr Mt the flurries Most people settled for 10 inches in Vernal with anything from a foot fool to 14 inches reported in Dry Fork Canyon and elsewhere For the first time lime in several years Santa Claus will not have to come to town via Frontier |