1920 年 4 月的暴风雪

1920 年 4 月的暴风雪 严重袭击了伯特胡德及其科罗拉多州北部的邻居。风暴过后 伯特胡德公报 reported, “Beginning early Saturday morning and raging all of Saturday, Saturday night and Sunday, and intermittently Sunday night, the worst April snow storm in thirty-five years put practically all of northern Colorado under from two and one-half to three feet of snow—and for two days almost paralyzed traffic. The work of ‘digging out’ started as soon as the storm ceased, and by Monday afternoon things had begun to move once more. The 4:27 train got as far north as Longmont Saturday, and was blocked there till Monday afternoon, when a snow plow, backed by three locomotives, drove through from Denver to Fort Collins and released it. Saturday afternoon’s train, southbound, was able to come out Monday afternoon.  A train direct from Denver reached Berthoud about eleven Monday night, bringing a big lot of mail.

“通往城镇的道路几乎无法通行，但一些勇敢的人骑马赶走了积雪。大风在城镇周围形成了一些巨大的积雪，特别是在马萨诸塞大道，从大观到车站拐角处。有些地方积雪超过七英尺深。人们拍摄了许多照片，记录了 May & Pollock's 和 Davis-Brown-McAllaster 商店之间河岸的深沟——这是当代人所见过的最大暴风雪的纪念品——仅次于 1913 年 12 月的一场雪，当时积雪水平面有四英尺深，但积雪没有那么严重……”