I used to have to walk to school in that stuff, and I couldn't even see over
the drifts.  .  .  all school year  .  .  .  five miles  .  .  .  in Phoenix
.  .  .  and it was so hot you could fry an egg on the manhole covers - oh
yeah, different story. <g>

Karl Wolz
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: Big Snow In the East <WOT>

> 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
> David Beierl - Providence, RI
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