SNOW ROLLERS

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David Schaef update: (12/05/23)

I spoke with David yesterday. He had just arrived at the Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital in Erie.

There are still a couple of issues to resolve, and David is optimistic that Encompass has the skills. We didn't speak much of medicine and health, most of the conversation was about our subscribers and the Community News newspaper.

I was much encouraged by the tone of his voice and the idea he was interested in talking about Community News. So, he’s at that, “I want to get back to work” stage of healing.

He talked about his subscribers and a letter he is composing for them. He talked about how to proceed with the newspaper when he gets home.

He said he hopes to be home in 2 weeks.

Thank You all for your Love and Prayers and Well Wishes.
Tom Deighton

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SNOw ROLLERS - Area residents woke up to these “Snow Rollers” Monday morning, Jan. 27, an extremely rare event in Crawford County. Lifetime residents were heard to say they had never seen such a thing in all their 70 to 90 years of age here. Snow rollers are snowballs formed naturally as chunks of snow are blown across the ground by the wind and form into snowballs seen. They were in yards and fields, some small, some described like paint cans stuck out in the fields. To form, this rare phenomenon has to have snow cover, the top layer crusted over, thawed then frozen over again; then fresh snow needs to fall on top that thin icy layer during temps near freezing, then strong winds to get the balls rolling. winds were reported in excess of 35 miles per hour Sunday evening into Monday. Accord to reports, the snow rollers are more common in places like Minnesota and the Dakotas where gusty winds play a part. Some local snow rollers were reported to be a foot and more in diameter.