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By LOU HATTER
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Not since 1966 have two back-toback winter storms battered the Mid-Atlantic region like the ones I which dumped more than two feet of I snow on Rappahannock last week. >
According to Sperryville l weather-watcher Dennis Wingfield, last Thursday’s storm dropped 18 inches of snow on the county. Just as residents were beginning to get dug out from that major snowfall, the deepest in four years, a second front swept through the region on Sunday, depositing an additional 12V4 indies before ending Monday morning.
Mr. Wingfield noted that, on the bright side, the cold temperatures during the period kept down the moisture content - and thus the weight - of the snow, making moving the mountains of snow easier.
During the snowfall Thursday, Mr. Wingfield reported that temperatures fluctuated between 24 and 25 degrees. By the time snow began falling again Sunday, the thermometer had plummeted to eight degrees, and rose only to nine degrees as the snow mounted.
The lowest temperature recorded during the past week was on Tuesday morning, when the mercury hovered at two degrees below zero.
"We got a little bit of everything last week,” Mr. Wingfield observed, adding that once Thursday’s snow stopped the wind picked up. He measured a peak gust of 44 miles per hour on Friday. On Saturday, at about 8 a.m., the wind chill was 20 degrees below zero.
The highway department fought a non-stop battle against the storms, working around the dock from
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