Airedale56
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30 to 50 mph winds are pretty common to Converse and Platte Counties.
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Yes, it's windy in those two counties for sure. We get some nice sunrises and sunsets from the amount of dust in the air because of the wind. This year they have been really nice because of other people's misfortune, the wildfires smoke in the air but that's still better than the radioactive dust from the atomic bomb trials of the mid- 1900's.
volunteer06
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tell me more about the raccoons out there. Do they stay around the mountains more where there are trees and forested areas or do they live in dens and frequent the places where there isn't a tree for miles?
I have seen them up in the high country along the creeks but mostly in the lower areas along the rivers and creeks where they have trees and brush cover. The last couple of months I been seeing them traveling out some distances from the normal travel areas being out in some of the prairie areas. They have been traveling to some of the cattle feed lots a couple of miles from any body of water other than the cattle watering tanks eating silage and grain the cattle are being fed. When I was a kid, we lived up at 7000 feet elevation, during the summer months, and every evening a coon would come feed at the trash barrel, mom got to leaving her a pancake or some biscuits, by mid-June she brought her cubs, six of them, with her. she came back for a couple of years in the summertime. Even the birds left there for the winter. You can go up in the mountains here in January and February and not see even a rabbit track all day long or hear a bird. I've been up there to feed cattle, and it was a nice warm morning but by noon the wind was blowing 20 plus mph with snow picked up and 5 or 6 feet high where if you stood in the bed of your truck all you could see was a white blanket of snow moving at ground level and clear blue skies above. The snow drifting in so fast that you couldn't shovel it out fast enough. But I've also been up there when it would be calm and clear above freezing but if you were down along the rive at 4500 feet elevation it would be zero or below with the valley full of smog. Most of the racoons stay down lower.
