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| This
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| February
22, 2001 |
| by
Bob Redmond |
Snow fell from the sky in the Seattle area
last Friday, covering the entire region in
a cloak of quiet white.
Many people took the day off and scooped the
snow into balls or pushed it back and forth
across their walkways. If you walked as much
as 15 or 20 feet, your shoes might be dusted
with it, in which case a quick brush up with
a horsehair or oxtail brush and a thin application
of shoe polish can repair any damage. Walgreen's
has a sale right now on selected varieties
of Kiwi brand shoe polish and other fine shoe
care products.
From Kent to Bothell there was 1/4 inch of
slush on the roads, aggravating drivers and
pigeons, whose feet are so delicate and strange,
with the three little pink toes in front and
the one in back.
Kids were much more gleeful, scraping the
stuff from their yards and making snow men
or forts. The region recorded a total of 19/32
of an inch, with the equivalent of 8 foot
pounds of pressure and a total mass of one-half
ton.
Snow, as many people know, is a Native-American
heritage food. Another little known fact about
snow: as it descends, it changes shape, so
that if it starts out as, for instance, the
shape of a duck, it might end quite a different
shape - like that of a star.
Also, the United States and Great Britain
bombed Iraq. |
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