The following is some clarfying information about the snow storm from retired Batallion Fire Chief Bill Hillinger:
Bill's wife, Zita, broke her femur bone in her leg while skiing and was in the hospital in San Bernardino. Bill had called Zita's mom to see if she would come baby-sit the kids while she was in the hospital. At the time, grandma was vacationing in sunny Florida and had to go to Ohio then to California, She finally arrived in Wrightwood before the weekend that the big snowstorm was predicted. Personnel from JPL picked Bill up in a 4 wheel drive vehicle and took him up to the mountain (knowing he would be snowed in for theweekend). Well, it snow....and yup, if left Grandma alone to take care of the kids. During a decent blizzard....a really long way from sunny Florida.
Bill finally made it home, and after working his way through the snow to the front door, He found grandma reaching out through an opened sliding glass door and digging into a massive snowdrift with a large kitchen pan. "When water is frozen, one makes due by melting snow. As long as it isn't yellow," he shared. If looks could kill He would have been a dead man as grandma Brickner stated she was never coming to Wrightwood in the winter time again. True to her word, she never came back to visit in the winter again!
How deep was the snow? Just the very tips of houses were showing. Going down the street you had to look in each opening to even find your house.
Ah, makes you miss the ol' days, don't it?
