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  1. I had just started working at a grocery store in Kensington. I had also just earned my drivers license. I remember the start of the storm and having no trouble driving the one mile home. I was due in at 4 am to unload the weekly truck and no one else showed up. At 8 am we usually changed clothing and opened the front doors for customers. I was naive enough to let the few in and opened a register. Around noon the manager showed up having walked about two miles and upon seeing the lights on and me manning a register he let out with a “how the hell did you get in here”? He made the decision to lock up the store so I headed south on Connecticut Ave which was down to one passable lane, made a hard right into my neighborhood, left the car next to what felt like a curb, and walked home. Four years later, after Vietnam and such, I was hired by the police department and heard stories from old timers about this snowstorm. One guy, a veteran of Guadalcanal, said that the chief ordered two officers to respond to the upper county fire stations and they lived there for the duration. One officer said he didn’t go home for six days and responded to emergency calls on a fire truck. The upper parts of Montgomery County were particularly hard hit because of the northwest winds that kept over drifting the north-south roads.
  2. I’m sad to see them go. They made fantastic bait. A cicada in the water on a hook would sometimes cause a feeding frenzy. I’ve never seen that with any live bait such as crickets or earthworms.
  3. She’s the Montgomery County advisor to the county executive on the cicada issue.
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