It may get redundant, as you read the first chapters of the novel, but one thing 1966 was remembered for, was the horrible winter.
Bitter cold temperatures in the teens, harsh winds, snow that closed the Springfield schools (unfortunately, I’m from Lebanon which really didn’t have snow days until I started attending school in the 70s), heavy fog & days of rain, according to the daily weather reports in the Springfield Daily News & Springfield News & Press.
At least, Missouri wasn’t hit with a crippling blizzard like the East Coast. They spent most of February digging out from under mountains of snow.
I have a chapter where Mykel & Clint “celebrate” Spring by setting off an emergency flair, which gets them in trouble with campus security. The emergency flairs play an important part at the end of the story.
WIP: DYNAMIC DUO OF THE OZARKS 