At 11:05 AM 1/25/2000 -0600, Alan Bosch wrote:
>My company has offices up and down the East coast - from Greenville, SC to
>Boston - that are closing because of the snow.  Our district office in
>Philly said, "... it's terrible!!  <panic in voice!!>  There must be six or
>eight inches on the ground <even more panic in voice!!>!!"

The memory of man (for snow, anyway) appears to work on a sort of sliding
scale where "normal" gets about an inch less for every month since it
snowed, and two inches more every second time it snows.  Or something like
that.  There's a long-term weighting factor too, and an additional
weighting for age of the person who has to shovel.

<g>
david
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