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• Snow layers are highly compressible, because 85 to 95 percent of a typical layer of new snow is composed of empty space. • Temperatures of a snowfield will be lowest at the surface of the snow and highest near the ground. Because warm air can hold more moisture than cold air, this means that air at ground level in a snowfield may contain 100% humidity while air at surface level contains much less. As pressure forces air from the ground to the surface, moisture precipitates out of the air and condenses around snow crystals, making conditions ripe for avalanche. • In between snows, rising temperatures may partially melt exposed surface layers which often refreeze and create a slicker, less stable surface for the next snowfall. • When an avalanche encounters a building in its path, the structure often explodes like a bomb hit it. This is because snow entering through broken windows and doors acts like a piston, generating enough pressure inside the building to blow it apart at the seams. • Snow that is water-logged will avalanche on even the slightest slope, as was the case at a Japanese ski resort where an avalanche killed seven skiers who were practicing on the beginner’s “bunny slope” that had an angle of only ten degrees. But 90% of avalanche activity occurs at slopes of 30 to 45 degrees. Mountainsides that are steeper than 45 degrees produce no avalanches because they are so steep that snow will not build up. • Snowfalls of 6 inches or less seldom produce avalanches. Snowfalls of six to 12 inches produce a few small slides. Snowfalls of one to two feet produce avalanches of considerable size. Snowfalls of two to four feet are very dangerous, and snowfalls greater than four feet produce major avalanches. ...continued

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• All in all, Susanna Salter was an ordinary woman doing ordinary things, but that changed in 1887, much to her surprise. On April 4, 1887, Susanna Salter was elected mayor of Argonia. She was surprised by this because she didn’t know that she was running for mayor of Argonia.

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• On February 23, 1910, a train called the Spokane Express left the city of Spokane, Washington, on a routine trip to Seattle. While passing through the Cascade Mountains, a winter storm set in. The snowfall was prodigious, dropping up to a foot of snow per hour. The tracks were snowed shut. The train, consisting of an engine pulling five passenger cars, stopped in the town of Leavenworth overnight while crews dug out the 30-foot drifts blocking the tracks. • The next day, the train made it only as far as the town of Wellington west of Stevens Pass. Wellington was mainly a fuel depot for the railroad, but there was an inn and a few other buildings as well. Here the conductor was ordered to pull off into a siding to wait out the storm next to a mail train that was also sidetracked. Eleven feet of snow fell that day, and sections of the railroad were buried under 25 feet of snow. Only the tops of telegraph poles could be seen. The track ahead was impassable. • Above the town, the steep slopes of the mountains had once been covered with a thick forest of trees. These trees would have held the snow in place. But in recent months, the trees had been felled by lumberjacks and hauled to mills, leaving the slopes bare. • On the evening of February 24, a 50-foot avalanche rumbled down the denuded landslide and destroyed a cook shack where train passengers had been fed hours earlier. Two crewmen who had remained in the shack were buried by snow and killed. Now the track was blocked both ahead and behind. The train was trapped. The snow continued to fall. Laborers with snow shovels were dispatched but balked at the huge load of work, deeming it not worth the 15 cents an hour they were paid. They walked off the job. ...continued

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WORST AVALANCHE (cont):

• A rotary plow with a 12-foot bite was sent in to clear the tracks but was stopped by an avalanche 1.5 miles long and 35 feet deep. The train was running desperately short of coal. The telegraph lines went down, leaving them without a means of communication. Some able-bodied passengers gave up waiting and slogged through the deep snow to the town of Wellington to find better lodging. Those with young children or physical ailments could not manage the trek.

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• On Sunday, the snow turned to sleet. On Monday, it began to rain. By now the passengers had been stranded for nine days. Over 30 feet of snow had fallen. • On Tuesday, March 1st, in the early morning hours as passengers and crew slept, an avalanche a quarter mile wide, half a mile long, and 20 feet deep sheared off the mountain and bore down upon the stranded train. The entire train was swept off the tracks and into Tye River Canyon 150 feet below. Rescuers rushing in from Wellington found only scattered debris. The two trains, seven locomotives, a rotary snowplow, several box cars, the water tower, the engine house, and all of the passengers and crew had disappeared. • The wreckage at the bottom was buried under 40 to 70 feet of snow. Because the telegraph lines were down, there was no way to call for outside help. The citizens of nearby Wellington leapt into action. • It took searchers six hours to rescue 14 people. An hour after that, faint tapping noises revealed one end of a mail car that harbored four railroad employees who were only slightly injured. All in all, 22 people survived, and 96 died. The final victim wasn’t found until spring. It still stands as the deadliest avalanche in modern history. Information in the Tidbits® Paper is gathered from sources considered to be reliable but the accuracy of all information cannot be guaranteed.

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