Out Our Way: Along the Covenant Trail with Goliath

Out our way, the first of the Alberta Clippers hit and hit hard last week. Even old Goliath found the 12 inches of snow that fell, not to mention the trees destroyed and the power outages that hit the community, a problem.

Well, to be fair, the electrical power failure wasn't that bad for him, he has batteries for his radio.

Now, big snow storms are never convenient - and although the moisture was welcome and the fires are surely totally out now - the reality is that most of us weren't prepared. Goliath reminds me that the big storms in February are almost always when the herds are calving, an...