I’d estimate that 46 quadrillion snowflakes fell on Boston in the weekend’s storm.
Thirty-five years ago WGBH ran a contest to estimate how many snowflakes had fallen on Boston during the Blizzard of ’78. My father, Jack Tessman, a Tufts physics professor, won with his calculation of 50 quadrillion snowflakes.
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Your father's witticism is too good not to share. Thanks.
Sorry, you are wrong on the count. You forgot all the liberal flakes that are part of the perma-flakes in Boston.
I usually think extremely little of everything you write... but I have to admit--and I am a liberal and proud to be--that your comment is hilarious!
Thank you for your letter! Thank you so much for the laugh... much, much welcome in these wretched days! Very funny.