Date:         Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:16:58 -0800
Reply-To:     Mike Miller <mwm@LANSET.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mike Miller <mwm@LANSET.COM>
Subject:      Re: Big Snow In the East <WOT>
Comments: To: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
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And it was uphill into the wind.  Both ways.

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 11:45 PM
Subject: Re: Big Snow In the East <WOT>


> 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
> >   http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> > '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
> > '85 GL "Poor Relation"