GLENWOOD WASHINGTON
INFO & WEATHER
Glenwood, WA is located
in the northwestern portion of
Klickitat County. It borders Yakima County.
The community is in the Glenwood Valley, formerly known as Camas Prairie. It is part of the Yakama Reservation.
We have a splendid view of Mt Adams.
Even though the mountain appears to be in our back yard,
it is actually in Yakima and Skamania counties.
Lat: 46.0095°N Lon: 121.2715°W
The elevation of my weather station is 1854 ft.
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If you have a question, you can contact Laurene Eldred at glenwoodweather@gmail.com
When I was a kid, growing up in Washougal, my grandma would tell me the story of some people who died on Mt. Pleasant, when their car became stuck in a snowdrift. They left their car running and died.
When Tom got his teaching job, here in Glenwood, he taught with Grace Davis. Lela Ward told me that Grace's husband Wallace had almost died of carbon monoxide poisoning at Cape Horn when his car was stuck in a snow drift.
I suspect this was the same incident that my grandma told me about.
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That same February 1937 snow storm, Lela said she and her siblings almost died from carbon monoxide in her brother's car traveling from school to their house.
These articles are from the February 05, 1937 Mt Adams Sun.
Lela said she could remember being groggy and people working with her to get her to breathe.
Harold Wellenbrock was driving, with his brother Chet. In the back seat, with a blanket over their head, because of the cold, were Lela, sisters Florence and Sadie and neighbor boy Ben Schneidler. The following week's news had more information.
