This picture is of a ruler we stuck in the snow to measure it, but this isn’t the highest it got.

In 2019, I was living in Springfield Oregon when there was a Snowpocalypse, with higher snow levels since 1917. And it wasn’t just by a small amount either, the 1917 record was 4 inches, while 2019 got a full 12.5 inches, more than a foot! Now, most people in places that are really anywhere farther north than that, like Montana and New Hampshire, probably aren’t impressed with that, but for Springfeild Oregon which didn’t even get snow some years, this was an insane amount of snow. Most people didn’t go out of their homes, and several businesses offered a $250 bonus just to drive to work and not go on leave. School was obviously cancelled, and me and my family stayed home and drank a lot of hot chocolate while playing in the snow.

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