Hi-
Those on the list who live in sublime climes may find the
following unintelligible. The rest of us can appreciate it,
altho locally the amounts would have to be increased by an order
of magnitude to make an emergency -
http://www.mtu.edu/alumni/snowfall.htm
--Bob Keen
68 1600
Chassell, Upper Peninsula, MI
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Joe and Joan were sitting down with their usual morning cup
of coffee while listening to the weather report on the radio.
"There will be 3 to 5 inches of snow today, and a snow
emergency has been declared," the weather report said.
"City residents must park their cars on the odd-numbered
side of the streets."
Joe said, "Jeez, okay," and got up from his coffee and went
out to park their Datsun roadster on the odd-numbered side
of the street.
The next day they were sitting down with their morning cups
of coffee. The weather forecast was, "There will be 2 to 4
inches of additional snow today, and the snow emergency has
been extended. City residents are reminded that they must
park their cars on the even numbered side of the streets."
Joe groaned "Jeez, okay," and got up from his coffee to
go out to shovel snow to move their roadster to the even-
numbered side of the street.
Two days later, again they're sitting down with their cups of
coffee and the radio weatherman said, "There will be 6 to 8
inches of snow today, and a snow emergency has been declared.
Residents must park their cars on the..."
At that instant the power went out and Joe didn't get the rest
of the instruction. Joe turned to Joan, "Jeez, what am I going
to do now, Joan?"
Joan replied, "Aw, Joe, just leave the roadster in the darned
garage today."
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