Word: blizzarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...snow swirled down on Washington that Wednesday afternoon, the drivers creeping past National Airport could barely see their way. Some even parked on the road and stepped out into the blizzard to clean their windshields of the sticky snow before driving farther. On the runways at National, the snow and ice were just as bad. Several of the idling jetliners returned to their bays more than once to be cleared of snow and ice and swabbed with glycol antifreeze...
...campaign went on for months, complete with professional organizers, phone banks, rallies, mountains of leaflets and handouts, plus a blizzard of ballots. Recalls San Jose State Basketball Coach Bill Berry: "For weeks, when you saw people all they said was, 'Did you vote? Did you vote...
...snowier across a wider swath than anyone could remember, but the harshness seemed to clamp down and stay. On Wednesday a new round of snowstorms rose in Arizona and New Mexico, moved east into Texas and covered the Waco area with up to a foot of snow. A blizzard struck the Great Plains on Friday and the Great Lakes states on Saturday; Midwestern temperatures once more fell into the -20° to -30° range. Snow fell again on the battered Gulf Coast and the Eastern seaboard off and on during the weekend. By then, each region had endured...
...large as the New Orleans Superdome, the 80,000-seat stadium, which resembles a giant Belgian waffle, was built only for football and offers fine sight lines, as well as what CBS claims is some of the best lighting for television in the country. As for the feared Midwest blizzard, inside there is the inflatable dome's weather-controlled environment; outside more than 100 Michigan highway department snow-removal trucks with 500 tons of rock salt are ready to pounce like orange-painted linebackers on the first snowflake that dares to fall on Super Sunday...
Farther east, Milwaukee suffered its worst blizzard in 35 years, with 33 m.p.h. winds driving 16 in. of fresh snow; 6 in. had fallen earlier. The city was paralyzed for a day. Georgia was beset by heavy rains and flooding, and a tornado whirled through Newton, Miss. (pop. 3,556), killing one man and injuring...