Yesterday I was sitting right on this corner of the deck in my bathing suit, worried that I was going to get sunburnt. Today I wake up to a blizzard.The locals love to tell stories about the extreme temperature changes around here. It is not abnormal to have 50 degree swings in the span of 5 minutes. It happened yesterday evening. I walked outside on the deck when my mom got home and nearly turned blue because I was still wearing my summer t-shirt.
One story has it that back in 1924 (I don't really remember the year) it went from 85 degrees to -30 in a span of a couple minutes. Another story says that a farmer put thermometers on both sides of his house and there was a 40 degree difference between them. Another quirk of the Black Hills. Luckily Deadwood is just as beautiful in the white fluffy snow as it is in the sunshine.
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