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WITH 5,800,000 TONS OF SNOW GREATER BOSTON IS COVERED

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While everyone else was clearing off sidewalks and digging out their cars after Friday night's snowstorm, Lincoln Clark, Jr. '41 was busy with slide rule compiling the facts and figures on the 12-inch snowfall.

According to Clark's computations the 1.6 inches of water that fell meant that 5,800,000 tons of snow blanketed the greater Boston area. If this amount of snow fell on one square foot of ground at the rate it came down Friday night it would take 690,000,000 days or 1,900,000 years, breaking all existing records.

The column of snow would measure 240,000 miles high or all the way to the moon and one sixth of the way back In view of these figures Clark commented that it is a good thing the snow didn't fall in one place, or was it?

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