Show Snowfall Could Be Much Worse As you gaze glumly at the falling snow and brood about ga galoshes galoshes ga- ga snow shovels and aching aching ach ach- ing backs that It could be worse MUCH WORSE For instance 1921 1921 76 inches 76 inches or of snow felt fell at Silver Lake Colo In just t 34 24 ours And Calit Inches of snow came down between Jan 12 and 15 1952 The rhe record snowfall for a cal month occurred at Tamarack tamarack tama Tama- rack Calif got inches inch inch- es during January ry 1911 ac according according ac- ac cording to World Book In the same year a rec rec- record ord depth of snow accumulated at Tamarack where inches covered the ground THE TIME ALL US U.S. record for snowfall in one season was set from July 1955 to June 1956 when Inches pf snow fell at the foot level of Mount Rainier Wash Be glad you dont don't live there All these figures are records and therefore unusual But indi- indi vidual snowfalls of 30 Inches are not unusual at all In the hills southeast of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario the average winter winter win win- ter snowfall Is more than Inches Erie Pa on the southeast south south- east shore of Lake Erie Erie was burled buried by a 27 Inch snowfall on Thanksgiving Day 1956 Be glad you dont don't live there either BUT NO MATTER where you live there are few spots In the I United States which never snow For Instance snow fell asfar as 1 far south as Lakeland Fla near St. St Petersburg In January January Jan Jan- uary 1958 I So like It or not snow Is going to be with us for awhile I and In quantity People who like snow Include small children I skiers and the people who make galoshes and snow shovels |