Ken Fitzgerald
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It's funny that Travis started his thread as Sunday the LOML and I drove to to the top of the Lewiston Hill...to get some of these photos....You climb between 2,000 and 3,000 feet in elevation getting out of the valley. In the first picture you can see the infamous Lewiston Hill. 9 truckers have been killed at the base of that hill in the 25 years we've lived here. They burn out their brakes and even though there are 6 runaway truck ramps during the descent....they don't get stopped and flip over at the bottom of the hill. 3 miles north of where these photos were taken, the highways were closed for 30 miles due to blowing snow and drifts 5-6 feet high and 60 feet long....took them nearly 24 hours to plow out the roads. We live in the Snake River Canyon at the confluence of the Clearwater and Snake Rivers. In photo #2...The Clearwater River is flowing in from the east (left) and the Snake is flowing in from the south (straight towards you) they combine and flow out of the photo to the right (west). Elevation makes a big difference in the amount of snow you receive, if any. In the last photo...more snow clouds blowing in from the west. Living in the Snake River Canyon...a lot of this stuff blows right on over and past us....
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