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Monday, March 31, 2008

Tons of Snow Test a Place Where Cold Is No Stranger (NY Times)

From The New York Times:

By Ian Austen
Published: March 31, 2008

OTTAWA — People here are divided between those longing for a few more inches of snow to set a record and others who think the 14 feet that has already landed, and mostly lingered, is more than enough.

No one needs to ask Luc Guertin his view. His front yard on a suburban street here features his personal monument to eastern Canada’s unusually prolonged, relentless and snowy winter. A snow wall, about 18 ½ feet high, 6 to 10 feet wide and 30 feet long, rises along one edge of the driveway

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/31/world/americas/31snow.html?ref=world

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