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To: jackie who wrote (533)	12/23/1998 3:14:00 AM
From: AugustWest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3496

Where am I? Well, I'm surely not in the city that gets 300 days of sunshine a year. Rather, I live on the shores of lake Erie. We get all the nasty slug here. Maybe 150days of sunshine, and close to the same in inches of snow anually. The special thing about here is that we get lake effect snow. Which means basically it comes in in bands from across the lake, sometimes accompanied with a regular snow storm. Which in turn produces very intensive snow fall in a very short period(say 1 hour), on a concentrated area. If you live in the snow belt of any of the great lakes, it is not uncommon to drive from over 2 feet of snow, again sometines in less than an hour or so to about 6" within a 1 mile stretch. I've litterally seen it snow like the dickens on the other side of the street. Kinda' like driving down from the mts. to sunny pastures, 'cept the sun ain't shining. And in the fall, the lake temps keep the snow away from the immediate lske shore. But in the spring, the cooler temps keep it cooler(thus peaches, apricots and other such fruit do well on the lake shore, while the premature blossoms freeze off 5 miles away) Conditions right now(outside my window) are rather calm with just a few stray flurries. Only about 7" on the ground, the expected storm petered out. Another thing about lake effect, never know where, when, how long, or how many inches you are gonna get! My EST clock says I need to get some sleep. BTW, you live in a wonderful state. I have spent a little time there. Ever hear the old miners song To hell U ride? There's a city names after it, timber line 14,700(I think).