Ah, yes â the big snow of May 3-4, 2001. Itâs hard to believe it was 20 years ago, and yes, I remember it well.
At the time, I was city editor for The Mountain Mail. My husband, Dan, and I had lived in Chaffee County for about three years, having left Chicago for what we thought would be a quieter, less stressful way of life. Â
Chicago has a well-earned reputation for bad weather. The summers can be hot and humid and winters can be brutal. Having grown up there, I remember slogging to school in blizzards, ice storms and below-zero temperatures. Yet in 12 years in the Chicago Public School system, I only had one âsnow dayâ and that was in my senior year of high school. But we never had four feet of snow in May.