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First snowfall leaves some to ask, ‘Is that it?’

Winter finally makes itself known with the first significant snowfall in the area

By Matt Byrne

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  January 22, 2012

It was before noon yesterday when Bob Leone paused in a slush-covered Allston parking lot after five hours on the road, and uttered the Boston-area plow driver’s prayer. “Finally,’’ said Leone, 49, of Newton. “We get a day’s work.’’ He was among many who expressed surprise, relief, and delight, after the winter’s first significant snowfall dumped XXXX inches of snow in Greater Boston and buried Southern Massachusetts and the Cape in inches.

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