The Sun Also Sets: climate change article

[Larryjk]

If you live in the "Valley of the Sun" you must be prepared for it to warm up in the spring-summer. However, when it is -30 here with blowing snow, or as the unofficial state motto says " Slick in Spots with Blowing Snow" you are enjoying old Sol. I-80 is called the "Snow Chi Min Trail". I will re-install my swamp cooler in about 15 to 20 days to surprise my wife. She likes to say I hook it up the first day of fall.

[skeet]

Heck Larry, I like that one. Day beore yesterday we had a snow thunderstorm..yesterday we had 55 degrees with periods of snow squalls blowing down off the Prior's and today I was out shooting skeet at Cody in my shirtsleeves(didn't shoot too bad even if it was blowing) Swamp cooler is all ready to go..all I have to do is turn on the water to it.....and wait till it's hot 'nuff to use it. We had quite a few days last year where it was over 100. Hopefully this year too.

[Larryjk]

Skeet, If you had to use I-80 this winter, you wouldn't like the nick-name. Had an unusually hard winter along the trail, closed a lot from Rock Springs to Laramie and Cheyenne. Usually that is just from Rawlins to Laramie; 48 hours duration once this winter. Pile-ups of 20 vehicles are not unusual. My neighbor is a patrolman and he is more concerned about getting killed by a truck than someone with a gun. The truckers take terrible chances and don't make it. My son has to make a 90 mile drive west from Rawlins to Point-on-Rocks each day and back and he only missed about a week of work. He is more concerned about survivability in his car than mileage. This was a very unusual winter and maybe it will be back to the old pattern next winter.
Wyoming folks are like hardened steel. Hot one day and cold the next, we are tempered.

[skeet]

I do know about I-80. I was down to Laramie a month ago. Another thing that is bad down on that area of the Interstate is the WIND combined with the ice on the road and the next thing ya know...yowwwiiieee. Almost bought a nice little ranch(1200 acres) down there. Too high and too cold...but the price WAS right. BTW we need the snow!! badly. We surely haven't had any rain. Less than 1/2" for the whole year so far.

[Rapier]

Darn Sheet,
Ya about to dry up and blow away?
Ed

[skeet]

Dry as a popcorn fart here. We usually only get about 4 inches anyway. but it do be a bit dry. Irrigation water was just turned on to us yesterday..so as soon as the weed seeds all float down stream i'll start to irrigate just a bit. I have some grazing land i gotta get growing.

[Larryjk]

Skeet, About a month ago the worst was over. The big ridge about 5 miles east of Walcott Junction was the end of the snow.
We could use a little rain here also. I had the lawn racked, aerrated, and fertilized, so we are in for a long dry spell.