A Scottish Boy’s Got Grit

After a snowstorm in Kiltarlity Scotland, 8 year-old Kyle Mackay got to work. Worried that people in his neighborhood would slip on the ice, he filled a wheelbarrow with grit and spent his snow days salting the sidewalks. Local companies gave him his own 1000 dollar gritter, work jacket and gloves to help him help others!

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Snow, Snow, Snow

The United States is seeing snow this month. Winter Storm Benjamin even brought rare snow to Florida and southern Texas. But Mount Baker, a ski resort in Washington’s Sierra Nevada mountain range, holds the record for most snow ever in one season: 1140 inches! That’s 95 feet of snow! I need a bigger shovel.
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