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Flakes irk drivers, delight sledders.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-DEC-03 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Flakes irk drivers, delight sledders.(Weather)(A morning snowfall catches local motorists and road maintenance crews by surprise, but turns into a boon for snow-tire sellers)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Matt Cooper The Register-Guard

How big a shock was Monday morning's snow?

Consider the Ferry Street Bridge heading out of downtown: At 9:30 a.m., you could've plopped down in the middle of it and made snow angels. Traffic couldn't get up the white-laden approach.

"They just took off to work like normal, and they didn't expect this," said deputy Lynn Hagues of the Lane County sheriff's office, who - ahem - was also stuck. "I'm not going anywhere right now. Sheesh!"

Good Samaritans offering sand and pushes soon had things moving. Generally, reactions to the season's second recorded snow were based on one's ability to enjoy it.

One to 3 inches fell in Eugene, but there's no way to say whether that topped the record for the day - 3.2 inches in 1964 - because the National Weather Service stopped measuring local snowfall seven years ago when it switched to an...

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