Last month I shared an earlier post about Driving in Iowa Snow.

Tonight I decided to share a follow up post from the one I shared last month. This one was written in December 2013. We have no snow here, but my family back in the Midwest will be seeing snowstorms later this year.

The winter rainstorms here are bad enough and I don’t like driving in them when it is dark.

Steven

Early Winter Driving II – December 11, 2013

Here is another classic editorial cartoon by Frank Andrea Miller that was published in the Des Moines Register.

Last winter I posted a winter driving cartoon in: Early Winter Driving

This evening I ran across another winter driving cartoon in one of my Grandma’s scrapbooks and thought I would share it. I do like the first one better, so make sure you click on the link above and take a look at it.

Nothing Like a Good Snowstorm to Take Man Down a Notch

One of the keys to understanding editorial cartoons is knowing what is taking place at the time. This cartoon came at a time when man was making great strides forward in different areas of geographic and scientific exploration.

I like the paragraph at the top:

“Ah Yes! Man is a Clever Animal. He has Conquered Land, Sea and Air. He has Harnessed Raging Rivers and Moved Mountains. He has Unlocked the Secret of the Atom… and now He even Challenges Space!”

But, he has not conquered a good snowstorm. Here we have a road that has turned into a parking lot, power lines are down and people are burning an old snow tire just to keep warm.

With all the progress they were still not able to avoid the effects of a snow storm.

Of course 50+ years later we are still brought to our knees by natural disasters or winter storms.

Have you ever been caught in a bad snowstorm?

Steven