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KY_EnviroGuy

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39. My first encounter with lake effect snow was....

Sat Nov 26, 2022, 01:07 AM

Nov 2022

during a field service job I did in Kane, PA back in the 90s. I had to drive to Warren one evening to pick up an air freight package during a snow storm. The snow "flakes" looked as big as golf balls and blinded me through the windshield but thank goodness, I made it back to Kane. The Tennessee boy will never forget that experience. If we had just ground cover there just every few winters in the 50s/60s, it was huge news on the Nashville networks.

By far the worst winter job I ever did was in Lorain, Ohio in a steel mill with every damn thing on the job site covered with about an inch of solid ice. Lots of slips and falls among the construction crews, most of whom were from the South.

Small world!

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