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almost continual snow. But we haven't had the big one yet and that’s the drifting snow,” he said, adding that snows with high winds generally accompany storms that blow in from the Gulf.
With the highway department desperately short of funds, its weather reporting service was one of the first items to be cut in recent belt tightening moves. Askew said he doesn’t particularly miss that service since it was seldom any more accurate' than weather projections from other sources. ”1 tune in every night to watch the weather forecast on television, just like everybody else,” he concluded, adding that he’s received no information yet on what the remaining two months of winter, traditionally Virginia's snowiest, may bring.
For a hint on what’s to come, the resident engineer could join the groundhog
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