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My mother used to share about a blizzard that caused her mother to have to deliver her without her dad present.  I didn't believe her then I found this article,

Memorable blizzards of winters past

By Walter Boyd/Special to the Times-News

Posted Feb 3, 2013 at 12:01 AM 

Updated Feb 3, 2013 at 9:00 PM

This area is not known for its copious snowfalls and light dustings of about an inch or two are all most young people have ever experienced. So, it may surprise some people that Burlington has experienced several paralyzing snowfalls in its history that would rival anything "up North."

Another big snow hit Burlington before noon on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 1940, and by Wednesday morning 18 inches of it had accumulated. The city had a plow by that time, but unfortunately it was at Mayor Earl B. Horner's farm at the time being used to grade his private road. So it was quite a while before the streets were cleared. During that storm a salesman from New York, staying at the Alamance Hotel, sent a telegram to his boss stating that he couldn't get his car out due to the heavy snowfall in Burlington. His boss, who obviously couldn't believe that a blizzard could occur in the "sunny South," wired back: "Are you drunk?"

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