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Let's get outside Ship Bottom where Jim Murdoch is standing by seeing some of that accumulation. Jim, tell us what's the experience like for you? Well, right now, Mike, and thank you very much. We have about 3/4 of an inch of snow on the ground here as you were just mentioning, and if you're not familiar with LBI, it's about 20 miles in length from Beach Haven to the south up to Barnicot Light to the north, so you can see some wildly difference in accumulations more to the south, less to the north. So right here, if you want to pan Ryan, off 2 hours south. You can see what the snow is doing. It's actually tapered off quite a bit. Visibility is starting to come up at least 1 mile visibility, but you're looking at Central Avenue and you can see the roads have been treated, but when the snow does come down a little bit harder than it was maybe 10 minutes ago, it did leave a coating of white on the roadways and the winter weather advisory certainly being met here in LBI. Slippery travel. We made our way down here from the Celia Cruz rest stop on the parkway here to LBI. Now we saw the big train of snow and salt trucks waiting at the rest stop. A little bit more snow needed. Now the left lane on the parkway was snow covered in spots. Middle was still clear. They are waiting for that middle lane to get snow covered. Then they can drop the plows and start to clear some of that slush off, but Really right now I can even just call this flurries. It's not even light snow at this point, so that dry air may be starting to win out here on LBI. Hopefully we'll get some more snow to whiten things up here a little bit, but right now, not even 1 inch, 3/4 of an inch snowing very lightly, no wind at all. The neat thing is if you are in an area with a couple of inches of snow, just step outside and listen. It's so neat to hear. We haven't had snow in a couple of years in this part of the region, so the snow has a dampening effect to all of the sounds you hear. That's why it's so peaceful following a decent, healthy snowfall here in Central and South Jersey. We'll send it back to you guys hoping for some more snow here on the island. We want to see if we can get to those 2 and 3 inch accumulations right now, 3/4 of an inch. That's about it here in Ship Bottom. Back to you.

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