Trapped by Seventy-One Inches of Snow
Extreme winter weather isolates Aberdeen and Ocosta, shutting down transportation routes.
Seventy-one inches of snow in ten days is most too much of a good thing, yet it is what the local weather bureau record shows—twenty-six inches for the last three days in January and forty-five inches for the first seven days of this month. Ocosta has been getting her mail by hand during the late unpleasantness with the weather. The engine has been running down to the 6-mile post, about six miles below South Aberdeen, and there turning the mail over to a carrier.
“Seventy-one inches of snow in ten days is most too much of a good thing.”
Aberdeen is still prone to extreme weather events that can paralyze infrastructure; however, modern transit systems have evolved significantly since the days when mail had to be manually portaged six miles through deep snow.
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