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La Junta Storms

from Mill Creek by Mark Mitten

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"La Junta Storms" is all about the deadly blizzard that came through southeastern Colorado...It came in Dec. 28, 2006 and tapered off on New Year’s Eve. Cattle were banked in, trapped in deep drifts of snow. The Air National Guard from both Colorado and Oklahoma helped out. Blackhawk military helicopters and even a C-130 were flown in, dropping over 3,000 bales of hay over the course of just a few days—during that first week of January ‘07. (Listen close at the very end...you can hear my dog Tana barking in the background, during the recording session.)

lyrics

christmas goes, blizzard sound
valley storms, towns shut down
three feet fell on these snow-cold plains
drifts ran high, hard winds came

hay drops - new year sky
hay falls - still we try
hay falls - from this new year sky
hay drops - cattle die

la junta storms, lamar she cries
planes & blackhawks cross the sky
hay's flown in, tractors try
rangeland snows, spindrift white

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15,000 lost (you can't count the cost)
15,000 lost (you just can't count the cost)

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from Mill Creek, released January 1, 2007

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Mark Mitten Winsted, Minnesota

Singer-songwriter. A blend of folk and folk-western. Also lead singer of Atomicana.

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