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The smallest snowstorm on record took place an hour ago in my back yard. It was approximately two flakes. I waited for more to fall, but that was it. The entire storm was two flakes.

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Richard Brautigan
Age: 49 †
Born: 1935
Born: January 30
Died: 1984
Died: October 25
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Tacoma
Washington
Richard Gary Brautigan
Took
Yard
Records
Waited
Hours
Yards
Fall
Smallest
Place
Storm
Snowstorm
Two
Hour
Snowstorms
Back
Entire
Flakes
Record
Approximately

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