Lorraine Vannoy and her Grandson, Philip Lovato walk on one of the massive drifts
While Wyoming is no stranger to savage winter snow storms, the April, 1984 Blizzard stands out in most resident’s minds as one of the worst. Following a difficult winter, where the thermometer hovered around -20 for days on end, residents hoped the end was in sight as winter moved towards spring. Yet, nature wasn’t finished. The snow and wind started on the night of April 24.
Wallace Vannoy, area rancher who, with Bernard Betz ran the U-Milliron Cattle Company near Clearmont, wrote in his journal, “April 25 – Snowed all night and still snowing now at 1:20, some wind. Linda came back from Sheridan, had to have a tow up Jim Creek Hill. No other trouble.