Out Our Way: But wait, there's more! - Habakkuk 3:2

Winter is a hard time on the Hi-Line - especially in the Season of the "Alberta clippers," the Arctic winds that remind us there is nothing between is and the North Pole but a barbed wire fence ... and someone left the gate open.

Although God has blessed the Hi-Line with warm "chinook" winds that give us numerous faux-springs during the harshest winter months, sometimes the chinooks don't come for and there are only the winter storms. The good news is that because of the seemingly arbitrary nature of Montana winters, we Montanans look for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Eight-foot snow ba...