On This Date: Snow Plow Reveals Truck Buried In Iowa Blizzard
A pickup truck buried in snow was revealed by the Iowa Department of Transportation’s snow plow.
(Iowa Department of Transportation)
When Bruce Springsteen wrote the strains, “Everything dies, baby, that’s a fact / But maybe everything that dies someday comes back,” for his 1982 album “Nebraska,” is it doable that he was pondering of a pickup truck buried in a blizzard only one state over in Iowa?
Well, no, I do not suppose so. But for some cause, these are the strains that jumped in my head after I noticed this image from Iowa’s Department of Transportation final 12 months.
During the 5 lengthy years I lived in Iowa, I discovered a little bit about the way in which a heavy winter snow could make issues disappear.
When a blizzard hits, any small object in your yard is prone to disappearing completely inside the white drifts. It may very well be a hand trowel in a backyard or an ashtray on a porch. Once they’re buried, it is easy to neglect they have been ever even there.
One of the unusual and exquisite moments of spring is when these objects come again to life, immediately revealed and returned from the melting snow.
On March 10, 2025, a snow plow on Iowa’s State Highway 141 revealed the biggest of those type of buried winter objects that I’ve ever seen: a whole pickup truck hidden deep within the snow. After a winter of heavy snow, it had been deserted by the proprietor, however, as Springsteen wrote, “everything that dies someday comes back.”
Winter Storm Lola It did not wring out a lot snow, by Hawkeye State requirements. Only 4 inches of snowfall was recorded in Denison, Iowa, close to the place the buried pickup truck was discovered.
But wind gusts as much as 63 mph blew the snow into giant drifts, particularly in outlying areas. Five days after the storm, the buried pickup was discovered.
As we head into spring, objects will probably be coming again to many individuals who have been misplaced on this winter’s heavy snows.
What’s the biggest object you have ever discovered buried in winter snow? Tell us about it within the feedback.
