Digging out, drying out from a monster spring snowstorm

How do you prepare for a 36-inch spring snowstorm that is headed your way?

Before I answer that question, let me set the scene for you:

It was on a fantastic and amazing Easter Sunday afternoon when we got the news that this wonderful warm weather was about to change – and it was about to change in the most dramatic way possible.

Three feet of snow?

I always tell people that the Wyoming winters are mild. It is spring that will lay you low.

Here in Lander, we average 110 inches of snow per year and most of it comes to March, April and May.

To make this whole event even crazier, Nancy and I had...