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and school cars proved invaluable during the storm. As he travelledthroughout the county checking road' conditions, “it enabled me to keep in," contact with Mr. Chappell at the* School Board office, while he talked; with the highway department for; road updates,” Dr. Gangel said. «
And, he added, he was able to re-*‘ quest help for a car which had slid ofC the road in front of him as he droveC along the Fodderstack Road.
State Police reported no major problems with accidents in the; county, since most people either hadthe day off for Veterans Day or de-' cided to stay home when they real-v ized that the road conditions were’ deteriorating quickly. A number o£ cars slid off the road, but most were; property damage accidents. There; were no major injuries.
Mr. Wingfield chuckled when' asked if the early snowfall means a; hard winter. “It all depends on the. jet stream.” He did caution that “it’s; not unusual for snowfall to follow a; warm spell at this tbne of the year,”; noting that the temperatures lastweek dropped from 76 on Sunday, to -- 66 on Monday, to 57 on Tuesday anddown to 37 degrees during the;> storm. <
One Washington, D. C., meteo-^; rologist, however, reported last-; week that over the past 100 years,..'; there have been 13 occasions when,:more than two inches of snow felK during November. In 10 of those--; years, subsequent snow, accumula--; tions were deeper than normal. Ini; nine years, the accumulation for the: winter exceeded 36 inches. ; ■
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