Snows in very early April are routine enough. Anything on or after the first day of Iowa Spring (April 15), though, is something to record. Dad did that.
Friday, April 16, 1993 … Last night we had an inch to two inches of snow, 30, 40 mile an hour winds … A lot of it melted because it’s been raining all day yesterday, raining the day before that, it’s been a miserable, muddy, wet spring. The sun is almost ready to come out; we haven’t seen it since Tuesday.
Twenty-five years ago, no one knew that a wet early spring and mid-April snowfalls were setting the stage for the Flood of 1993.
(That’s the Red Car in front, the one that a decade later was stolen in Omaha.)