Welcome to Siberia – Wyoming's winter body count has been high

If you made a movie about this year’s Wyoming winter, it would have to be a survival story.

There have been so many great rescue stories but also some awful accident stories. The worst was the deaths of five Missouri high school kids on Interstate 80 east of Rawlins. Another horrible Rawlins death was when a semitruck collided with an ambulance killing a young man who left behind his wife and three kids.

The body count has been extraordinary with at least four wrecks each killing a pair of siblings. I just cannot imagine the devastating level of grief these events have caused.

Also, that multi...