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Show Record Storm Strikes District During )Veek Blizzards which swept Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada and Utah, making numerous state and subburban highways impassable, grounding all airplane service and making hundreds of intermountain families virtual prisoners, held American Fork and surrounding communities in its throes Tuesday. Snow commenced falling late Monday Mon-day night and continued until approximately ap-proximately 9 a. m. Tuesday morning, morn-ing, when a biting cold wind began drifting the dust-like snow until depths of 12 feet were reported in some sections of the county. About three and one-half inches of snow fell during the storm. Although no serious blockades were experienced, many automobiles were halted temporarily both in the streets within the city as well as in the outlying districts. Late Tuesday afternoon according to a radio broadcast, students from Cedar Fort and Fairfield were unable un-able to return to their homes. Principal Prin-cipal D. R. Mitchell of the Lehi high school stated that the pupils would remain in Lehi until the roads were reopened. The county road crews cleared the Cedar Valley road Wednesday. Wed-nesday. Buses filled with Alpine and Highland High-land children were forced to return to American Fork. Ten students were taken to the Grant hotel, and the remainder stayed at the homes of teachers and citizens of American Fork. Tuesday night found pupils in the homes of Mr. T. A. Greenwood, Green-wood, Mr. L. B. Adamson, Mr. Jesse M. Walker, Mr. K. J. Bird, and several other residences. A contingent of the state road commission from Vivian Park worked work-ed incessantly Tuesday night clear- 1 ing the Alpine highway. Salt Lake & Utah Railroad station agent, W. C. Hanson, stated that Salt Lake City reported more snow than American Fork, and that rotary ro-tary plows were necessary to clear the tracks. The trains, he said, were not completely stalled, but were delayed. de-layed. Reports from O. E. Maxfield at the lower power plant in American Fork canyon state that there is 15 inches of snow at that plant, 27 inches at the upper plant and 43 inches at the upper intake. There has been 1.28 inches of moisture content in the snow that has fallen since the first of January. It is reported re-ported that there is 72 inches of snow at the Pacific mine up the north fork and 28 inches at the Cave Camp. During the whole of last year (1935) only 12.48 inches of snow fell at the lower power plant while this year there have been 17.97 inches fall just up to January. |