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...also that year that we all caught comet fever; Halley's had come to town. For several weeks we endured arctic temperatures, looking skyward until our necks were sore. Everyone ooed and ahhed, and I think I was the only kid in town who admitted to not being able to see the damn thing. Finally, one frigid night I looked through the telescope at the high school and saw a pea-sized white blob. I'm told it was the comet, but it looked more like frost on the lens to me. I knew from school that we wouldn...
...would be another strike against those Arctic Cats, Polaris Indys, Mountain Maxes and Skidoo Formula 500s--machines whose booming popularity seems to be matched only by the growing number of people who hate them. Antisnowmobilers complain that the motorized sleds, with their primitive but powerful two-cycle engines, are loud, dirty and dangerous and that they intrude on quieter users of public lands. Most national parks tightly restrict their use; California's Yosemite and Montana's Glacier national parks prohibit them outright...
Smilla's Sense of Snow is more than a climatological instinct. It is the projection of a wintry soul over which a long, cold arctic night settled long...
...MIDWEST: There was no school today in Lake Woebegon. In fact, with early morning wind chills of 70 below across much of Minnesota, Governor Arne Carlson closed all public schools in the state. A mass of arctic air has settled in over the region, bringing blizzard conditions that have shut most everything down. Gusting winds in the Dakotas have topped out over 50 mph, and conditions are nearly as bad in the plains and rolling hills of Iowa, where even the lightest dusting of snow is driven hard enough to create "whiteout" conditions. Even discounting wind chills -- which...
...years of modestly sufficient rain and no crop-battering hail, prosperity seemed possible. But the winter of 1916-17 was arctic, and the next summer saw only 5 in. of rain. Crops and credit dried up, farmsteads failed. Even today a curious visitor has no trouble finding the husks of homesteaders' abandoned houses, some with clothes still in closets and perhaps a hopeless account book yellowing on a kitchen floor...