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From: dame_zumari@yahoo.com (
 Louise Bremner)
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Subject: Re: Lightning strike
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 06:19:37 +0900
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Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson <knicolson@pobox.com> wrote:

> >> She replied by telling me about Japanese thunder, where you get the rumble
> >> first, then the lightning.
> >
> >Typical... Not only is Japanese snow "unique", but so is their lightning.
> 
> Go on, tell me what's unique about Japanese snow - does it form seven-
> instead of six-sided shapes, or what?

I don't think it was ever specified just how it was unique; just that
foreign manufacturers of snow gear couldn't produce equipment suitable
for it.

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