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LINES from a couple of old Hit Parade tunes might well be adopted as the theme song for the winter of 1976-77. “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” or “Button Up Your Overcoat.” Either i# applicable.
The weather station at Washington reported a low of minus 4 degrees, and snowfall measured six inches—four one time and two the next. Last Friday night’s sleet storm played havoc with traffic and Sunday night’s high winds felled a powerline in Flint Hill. The wind, combined with the near zero temperature, made living mighty uncomfortable.
The consensus of Woody Tharp of Castleton was that the world must be upside-down. “It’s 40 " degrees in Alaska and zero here.”
One farmer reported that he had to thaw out his water pump one morning and in the afternoon his pumphouse burned down. “Whether it was a spark or an electrical malfunction, I don’t know”, said Henry Hudson, “but that’s what
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