For some parts of the country, winter is a distant memory. And, in some cases, there was very little snow. But for most of the northern states, “Old Man Winter” was especially grumpy. It didn’t get much worse than in Caribou Maine. They surpassed their 1954 record of 182 inches of snow and are approaching the 200 inch mark. That translates into 16 1/2 feet of whet stuff.  It wasn’t one or two storms, it just kept snowing,,,, maybe 30+ times.  In honor of this record setting year,  I sent copies of the 2008 Farmers’ Almanac to the city officials and here is the reply from Mayor Miles Williams.

I want to thank you for the copy of the Farmers’ Almanac that you sent to each of us. It was a very pleasant surprise. I recall reading some of the entries in the last years edition and was thinking there is no way we are going to receive that much snow! The local television Meteorologist was saying last fall that he predicted we would receive at least 149”, to date we are almost 197”. I guess the best way to say it is “look at what we got”. It has been an interesting year for our Public Works Department also, I was up visiting the Crews late one night while they were working, and we were joking that the cabs of the vehicles haven’t had an opportunity to even cool off this season! No doubt we have set and broke many records this year and we have a lot of time yet before the air clears for the season. But we ARE Mainers and it is just another day in the “County”