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Wh y no snow?
IF WE GET THROUGH the next few weeks without any measurable snow, it will be the first snowless winter in the history of the weather bureau. Many people are wondering why it hardly snowed at all. Here is one story of how it all came about:
Just before Christmas last year, Charles Smoot, Jr., nicknamed “Rock,” eight years old, told his Daddy what he wanted for Christmas, or for that matter, he said, it could be a pre-Christmas present. He wanted a sled. He could hafdly wait to coast down one of those mountain slopes, just as soon as the snows came — as they always did.
Charles Smoot, Sr., who manages Mountain Green on Harris Hollow Road, and who lives with his wife Mae and son on an adjoining farm, was put on the spot by Rock’s plea. He.=already had bought Rock another Christmas gift, ’way back in September. On Rock’s third request he looked his son solemnly in the eye.
“Son,” he said, “it isn’t going to snow this winter. So you won’t need any sled.”
Rock looked his father solemnly in the eye, “Daddy, it always snows in winter.”
“Not this winter, it won’t,” his father insisted. In his bones he knew he had to make good on his prediction. And that’s how come it didn’t — well, nearly didn’t — snow in Rappahannock County all winter long.
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