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To: thackney

No city can be expected to plan for that much snow. It would be like a Florida city being criticized for not planning for 200 inches of rain...

39 posted on 01/11/2012 9:35:24 AM PST by GOPJ (GAS WAS $1.85 per gallon on the day Obama was Inaugurated! - - freeper Gaffer)

To: GOPJ

Valdez gets about 287 inches per year of snow with a max of 550.
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?ak9686

Cordova isn’t that far away, but they get about 117 inches per year of snow with a max of 261.
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?ak2177

This recent storm brought 42 inches of snow to the town. They didn’t get it all at once.

42 posted on 01/11/2012 9:45:34 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)

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