BLOWING A BLIZZARD

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 148, 27 June 1929, Page 13

BLOWING A BLIZZARD

TRYING EXPERIENCE

, LOST IN WHIRL OF SNOW

(By Bussell Owen,.—Special to "New;

York Times.") (Eeceived 27th June, noon.)

BAT OF WHALES, 25th June. The worst blizzard we have haj since last fall is blowing, the wind hav^ ing steadily freshened since morning to a gale that shakes the chimney pipes and rattles the stoves. It is driving before it all the loose snow which has fallen recently, making a smother ia which tilings only a few yards away, are invisible. Harrison went over* land from his houso the other day, for. being meteorologist, he is sufficiently; interested in the weather to tempt it occasionally when almost everyone sticks to the tunnel. He missed the large house, and wandered two or three hundred yards to the east before he realised he had overshot his mark. He then turned, and by the light on the; radio tower, which Commander Byrd had put there for just such an emerg« ency, he found his way back again. Finally he stumbled over the house en« tranoe, which was almost entirely concealed by snow, but/he managed to dig his way in, and entered with his usual nonchalant manner, but covered with! snow. The light is sixty feet high, and some feet above the drift, so that it is visible for a long way, when ob* jects _on the ground are hidden from the sight by the whirling curtain of white. :

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