LEEE PITTS AND SNOW

LEE PITTS

IT'S THE PITTS

DELMARVA FARMER MAGAZINE

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

HIS BIT ON SNOW

Lee Pitts said he hates snow but we need moisture and 10 inches of snow

is equal to an inch of rain. He feels a “blizzard” is a dangerous way

to get it. He takes on the title of “chionophobic”, one who fears snow,

and does not believe there is such a thing as 'beautiful snow” .

( maybe he means xenophobic)

He was raised in southern California and only saw snow at a YMCA

snow camp every winter. He has a respect for those who live where it

snows and have icicles hanging from their nose hair . He tells us you need to be born in a blizzard to know how to drive in snow.

He and his wife did spend a year in northern New Mexico, had to purchase

a Carhartt jacket, cap with ear muffs, long undies, wool socks, Sorrell

boots, but moved back to the ocean front where 'winterize' means roll

up the car window. Yes, there is fog. He was once trapped three days at Donner pass at a Shell Gas station with 20 others. He has been advised

by a 89 year old grizzled snow survivor, when driving in the snow, just

swerve into a snowbank and stay with the car. That makes it easier to

identify the bodies after the snow melts.

Baxter Black's “On The Edge Of Common Sencse” article is about

“ Grafting Calves “ and who around here would know what the practice

of “grafting calves” is, so I left it be.

Abstract: Delmarva Farmer, Easton, Maryland, 26 February, 2019.