OT: Saturday 11:30 AM - 26 inches

Sat Feb 9 21:17:18 UTC 2013

Anybody up to posting a picture or two somewhere before the sun goes down? Inquiring minds want to see...

Geoffrey S. Nathan
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and Professor, Linguistics Program
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> From: "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Sent: Saturday, February 9, 2013 4:01:34 PM
> Subject: Re: OT: Saturday 11:30 AM - 26 inches

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> On Feb 9, 2013, at 11:46 AM, Alice Faber wrote:

> > The town where Larry H and I live has the third highest
> > accumulation in
> > the state, 36" on average and before drifting. I just spent 45
> > minutes
> > shoveling my front stoop, as the drift was much higher. Balancing
> > out
> > the drifts, I do have bare grass on one side of my house.

> Ditto on all counts, except I haven't gotten down to any grass yet.
> I'm sure it's down there somewhere.
> The drifts in our front yard are around 40"-44" high.

> LH
> >
> > On 2/9/13 11:41 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> >> At 11:30 AM locally, and I mean very locally, about 26 inches on
> >> the
> >> level and up to 5 feet in the drifts. Although right behind my
> >> detached garage, I can see the grass. (Admittedly this is the
> >> weather side; it will be lower on the lee side.)
> >>
> >> Joel
> >>
> >> At 2/8/2013 10:47 PM, paul johnson wrote:
> >>> Effect coddled easterners,in the middle west only the amateurs
> >>> get out
> >>> rulers before a foot has fallen
> >
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