Word: blizzarded
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...blizzard of 1996 was at its peak on January 13. There were 36 inches of wet packing snow on the ground, four-foot-long icicles dangling from the eaves and a brigh? orange glow at night from the reflection of street lamps on the snow. Two Cabot House seniors with vision trudged into the middle of the Quad with buckets and pails, a few sketches and a penchant for frostbite...
...hours. How big was the snowstorm that hit the Eastern states early last week? So big that in each new place it bulldozed over, it toppled a different historical precedent. In New York City they compared it to the great storm of 1947. In Boston it was the blizzard of 1978. In Raleigh, North Carolina, the snow of 1989. That won't happen next time. Whenever they do their recollecting, January 1996 will be the Last Big Storm for the entire East Coast...
...moral indifference of weather, even when destructive, is somehow stimulating. Why? The sheer leveling force is pleasing. It overrides routine and organizes people into a shared moment that will become a punctuating memory in their lives ("Lord, remember the blizzard...
Residents and municipalities up and down the East Coast spent the week digging out from the Blizzard of '96, a huge and paralyzing storm system that dumped record or near record snowfalls on major metropolitan areas, including Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. At least 100 deaths were attributed to the weather...
WASHINGTON, DC: Responding to complaints by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge that the White House dragged its feet providing disaster assistance in the wake of devastating post-blizzard flooding in his state, presidential spokesman Mike McCurry unaccountably accused Ridge of bureaucratic ineptitude, cracking: "He ran his mouth instead of getting the work done that would have led to getting the assistance." Ridge had complained on Sunday: "We've got people dead and missing. We've got families walking around in shelters with only the clothes on their backs. We have roads under water and ice . . . But according to them...