..WOW.... GOD really impressed me with his 'winter power'.....We surrender!! Don't make it snow anymore!.....For many years I have had the honor of being the "Unofficial Official Coralville Historian'....SO, here is my Unofficial report: THIS is Coralville's biggest snow storm since approx 1952 or 53'...WE just got an 'unofficial 15" on Groundhog Day, February 2, 2011.. Enough. Back in 1952+-, we got about the SAME....HOWEVER back them we did not have the number of buildings, parking lots, streets, developments etc.. NOT many people in Coralville back in those days......BUT here's more,,,, we did not have much equipment either..Nope, the City of Coralville (town in this days) had an old roadgrader, a small Ford N tractor, and an old dump truck with a plow. THAT was IT..,, and, and, they followed each other around. So if the dump truck went down your street, the little tractor was close behind.....They started at the City Shop, (about where Golfzilla is located today, and worked the 'avenues', 1st , 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc, unitil they got to Hemphill Road, and lower 11th Avenue.. Then the streets, 5th, 6th, 7th etc, until they got to 8th, then they were done.. Any problems here? Nope.. The guys who plowed teh streets were also the 'garbage guys'.., so if it snowed on garbage day, they came the next day for your garbage. Easy and simple. Life can be complicated, but in "old Coralville' it was NOT.
THIS snow storm on Groundhog Day 2011, is probably our biggest and most 'complicated'. LOTS of streets, lots of long streets, (12th ave, 5th street, 10th street, and Coralville is a BIG, spread out town.....Not sure how many plows we have,, never enough in a snow like this.
SO, sit back, let your Florida dreams begin, and remember,, GOD will take this all away,,,,but not soon!! See you in Coralville.
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