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Storm buries Fort Macleod
car show |
FRANK MCTIGHE
MACLEOD GAZETTE EDITOR |
A weekend storm that
left Fort Macleod under a blanket of snow also buried a classic
car show.
The 17th annual Spring Breakout organized by the Crossroads
Cruisers was frozen out.
“It’s pretty heart-breaking,” Crossroads Cruisers Bill Featherstone
said. “You plan all year for it, but there’s nothing you can do
about it. It’s just Mother Nature.”
Mother Nature dumped about six inches of snow on Fort Macleod with
a storm that began Friday evening and continued through Saturday
and into Sunday.
Temperatures plummeted to -14 Celsius overnight and the combination
of cold and snow proved too much for even the heartiest of
classic car owners. “A few years ago we had a weekend where Main
Street was a sheet of ice, but we still had 20 or 25 cars,”
Featherstone said. “This one, there was no way.”
The storm made highway driving hazardous, particularly on Saturday,
but RCMP responded to just three calls of vehicles hitting the
ditch. “The roads weren’t all that great,” Fort Macleod RCMP
Const. Rob Olive said. “They were really ice-covered. People
just stayed off them.” Spring Breakout organizers were
projecting a record turnout for the classic car show, which
traditionally attracts about 150 vehicles. “It was going to be a
hell of a show,” Featherstone said. “We had phone calls from all
over. There was lots of interest.”
Organizers will not attempt to reschedule the Spring Breakout for
later this year.
“This is our weekend. It has been for 17 years,” Featherstone said,
explaining there are car shows booked every weekend through
spring and summer. “We wouldn’t even attempt to reschedule for
later. There’s just too much legwork.”
On a positive note, there was good attendance at the Spring
Breakout cabaret Saturday night at Fort Macleod and District
Community Hall. Featherstone said the Crossroads Cruisers took
the storm in stride. “We don’t sweat it,” Featherstone said.
“What happens, happens. You get to where you don’t panic.”
The Fort Macleod forecast for Wednesday, April 23 is for light snow
with a high of -2 Celsius and a low of -9 Celsius.
There should be a break in the cold and snow by Thursday, April 24,
with a forecast high of 4 Celsius, with temperatures climbing to
8 Celsius on Friday and 13 Celsius on Saturday. |
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Three-year-old
Zachary Grant helped his mother Lindsay clear the driveway of
their Fort Macleod home Saturday following the storm. |
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