Snowpacalypse! Snowmageddon! Hide for your lives! We’re all going to be buried alive by sleet! Sleet? Yes, sleet! You sure? It’s gonna kill us! Really? Close the schools! Why the schools? Our children are our future! Aren’t the classrooms heated? But they might get frostbite! Inside heated classrooms? Yes! Isn’t sleet the lightest of the

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“Snow on the Edge” One could take that title several ways: 1. It refers to the edge of a patch of snow 2. It refers to that period of time right before a snowfall 3. It refers to snow under great stress (“don’t jump!”) 4. It refers to a human under great stress because of

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When the NFL decided to award North Texas the Super Bowl three years ago, folks around here will so excited that they’ve been talking about it ever since. After all, Dallas-Fort Worth usually has pretty nice weather in the winter, save for the odd ice storm. But ice storms are few and far between here

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Have you been watching the news coverage of Egypt’s national crisis? I can’t take my eyes off it. Seriously. I think I’ve watched CNN and BBC for at least five hours each of the past three days, my attention wrapped in the pictures, words and commentary. Even now, as I write, Wolf Blitzer is interviewing

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