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...Lake Erie, contributes to its singular attraction for snow. Since fall, Buffalo has been smothered by an incredible 14 feet of snowfall. Last week drifts as high as 30 feet buried the roads in the area, paralyzing all business and movement. Winds up to 85 m.p.h. generated a numbing chill factor of -60°, and 22 people died in the cold...
Firing back good-naturedly, Jimmy reminded the Congressmen that "we were all fuzzy on the issues," but conceded that as a presidential candidate he had had "a much broader range of issues on which to be fuzzy." At the end of the evening, as he strolled out in the chill night air, the new President from Plains told some applauding bystanders at the hotel door, "Have fun in Washington...
...Oval Office by 7, reading the newspapers and his daily news summary. Although his staff is a shirtsleeves-style crew, Carter has so far worked in a coat and tie, forgoing the sweaters and blue jeans that were his pre-Inaugural uniform in Plains. To ward off the chill, Carter usually sits in an apricot-colored wing chair near a crackling fire. His first appointment every morning, at 8, is with Brzezinski. The only other regular appointment on Carter's daily agenda so far is a 10:30 meeting with Powell and Deputy Press Secretary Rex Granum...
...storm swept from Minnesota through Ohio, sending temperatures plummeting and piling drifts high across roads. Winds up to 50 m.p.h. created low chill factors of -71° in Minneapolis and -45° in snow-buried Buffalo. Interstate highways from Wisconsin south to St. Louis were blocked. As crews worked desperately to clear passageways, the 30-day forecast brought no hope. The prediction was for more snow, extending even into the South and Southwest, and lower-than-normal temperatures throughout most of the eastern two-thirds of the nation...
...hockey shin guards, corset-like plastic chest protectors, and all the cold-weather gear they could wear and still waddle to the starting line. Temperatures were in the low 20s, balmy by St. Paul standards, but at the 80-m.p.h. speeds the racers would soon be traveling, the wind-chill factor would make it seem like -20°. Some of the drivers fashioned long tape-and-rubber noses to keep the vapor of their breath from fogging their goggles. Others applied wide strips of tape to their faces to ward off frostbite. Then, setting off in waves of ten, three...