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(Continued from Page 1 ) dren out the back way and take them to Camille Harris’s house safe and sound (though not high and dry.) Parents were able to pick them up there by 2:15.
“Spring” Sunday
Who would have believed that only last Sunday it seemed like spring? Here and then one could notice a crocus poking through the ground. The poor plant was deceived by the warm weather and would probably be frozen before the actual equinox occurred.
Wingfield says it hit 61 degrees in Sperryville. “That old jet stream brought it up from the south and let it stay without mixing with the cold,” he said, noting that it’s been a warmer February this year. During the first 13 days of this month, it has averaged 3.6 degrees warmer than during February of 1983, he said. Last year it was March 3 before it
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from Page 1 ) the traditional time at which local highway workers look back over the storms of winter and say, “Whew, glad that’s over.”
“We figure March 12. We can breathe easy after March 12. We’ve had no significant storms that I know of after that date,” the resident engineer reported. But he stressed "significant” and was quick to note that the area has been frequently spared with several very, very near misses. “In 1971, we had eight inches of snow on Paris Mountain (in Fauquier County) on April 1 — April 1! Right down from the mountain in Upperville and everywhere else in the residency, it was rain.”
He noted that the winter of 1983-84 has been hard on everybody, highway crews and the general public alike. “I think everybody’s ready for the robins,” Askew concluded.
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