snow- words

[David Bergdahl]

Daughter Esther arriving [after a delay] from Chicago-Midway called it a
snowpocalypse.
-db

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:

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> my little family (daughter Elizabeth, son-in-law Paul, granddaughter
> Opal) got back recently from a vacation trip to the east (upstate New
> York, NYC, Boston), escaping just ahead of the heavy snow, with
> reports of terms used to describe the snow storms: snowtastrophe,
> snowmageddon, snowpocalypse.  any others?
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> arnold
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