Word: blizzards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...storm worsened, Serafin ordered five trailer trucks to leave for their destinations ahead of schedule. Then he and his staff chartered three Learjets for Sunday in case the blizzard knocked out the regular commercial airlines that normally carry the films of the editorial pages. It did. When the blizzard finally blew itself out, there were 30 in. of snow on the ground and O'Hare International Airport was closed...
Amraie's laudable dedication to his job is matched by that of many of the workers, but for different reasons. The day after the NIOC manager delivered his tribute to his revolution-minded employees, an oil truck burrowed through a fierce blizzard on the Zagros mountain road from Khuzestan to Tehran. At the mountain hamlet of Zalian, the driver came to a stop. Inside a shelter, he performed the ritual Muslim ablutions. Then, barefoot, the worshiper stepped onto a spotless linoleum platform and began his prayers. Afterward, he explained that he was willing to brave the storm...
...impossible to get those kinds of clouds around here at this time of year. It's too cold for them to form naturally. So it had to be an enhanced storm--nukes in the upper atmosphere. That's the only way we could have gotten the blizzard that we did. They had to make...
...indeed a topic to be serious about. They were talking about the Great Blizzard that had overwhelmed New England a few weeks before, and one guy believed he now understood where all the snow had come from...
...then there were the epidemics. The flu and the viruses started to hit people right after the blizzard. The radiation weakened their resistance...