11.   In one night, a town got older.

12.   In the United States, small towns get to brag if they give birth to a vice president or a major league pitcher.

13.   It recently took out an insurance policy that will only pay off if the town gets enough snow.

14.   Now, the town is getting ready again.

15.   Postmistress Sherry Russell estimates half the town gets mail from the county welfare office.

16.   So towns out here get bigger in one of two ways.

17.   Some towns got as much as five inches.

18.   The more people in town, the more financial aid the town gets from the federal government.

19.   The next year, things were more formal, and the entire town got involved.

20.   The town got it, in ways no one had expected.