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I had the River Division then , and we got through the whole winter without a single tie-up of consequence until March . `` The morning was still as June . When the sky went heavy at noon it looked more like a spring shower than a snow-storm ; only , I noticed over at the government building they were flying a black flag splashed with a red centre . I had not seen it before for years , and I asked for ploughs on every train out after two o'clock . `` Even then there was no wickedness abroad ; it was coming fairly heavy in big flakes , but lying quiet as apple-blossoms . Toward four o'clock I left the office for the roundhouse , and got just about half-way across the yard when the wind veered like a scared semaphore . I had left the depot in a snow-storm ; I reached the roundhouse in a blizzard .