The military’s promise to leave no behind is being challenged by Alaska's harsh climate. Paying cards and uniforms are still being pulled from a glacier from a decades-old crash.
Roger L. Evans Lt. Col. (retired)
Nov. 4, 1930 Jan. 28, 2021
Roger L. Evans, 90, passed away peacefully at Rockville Terrace Assisted Living on Jan. 28, 2021, with family at his side. He was born Nov. 4, 1930, in Douglas, Arizona, to William Evans and Ethel Rogers.
A few years after graduating high school, he received ‘greetings from Uncle Sam,’ which was really an invitation to participate in the Korean War. Having already developed a keen interest in aviation from building and flying model airplanes as a young boy, Roger elected to play by Air Force rules, so on Feb. 20, 1951, he joined the Air Force.
Roger began his Air Force pilot training at Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo, Texas, flying the North American T-6, then it was on to Vance AFB in Enid, Oklahoma, flying the T-28 and his first multi-engine, the North American B-25. He always remembered the day he soloed the B-25: Feb. 23, 1954.
The 25th anniversary of the blizzard that helped to take down ‘Old Shakey’
Updated Jan 08, 2021;
It snowed Sunday and Monday, Jan. 7-8 – 22.2 inches. It snowed again on Friday – another 10.8 inches.
In Pa., the blizzard is attributed to the death of 80 people. According to Accuweather, Pa. suffered the most damage - $1 billion worth.
What followed made it worse – it got warmer.
On Jan. 19, 1996, the temperature rose to a record high of 56 degrees.
On Jan. 20, heavy rain to the north and the warm temperature melted the snow and triggered floods. The Susquehanna River rose rapidly.
All that snow across the state began melting and triggered floods the magnitude of which Pa. had not seen since Agnes in 1972.