Word: frigidly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From atop a windswept hill, the panoramic landscape looks eerily beautiful -- and yet completely hostile to life. Even at the height of summer, the scene is one of frigid desolation. To the west lies a saltwater bay whose surface is frozen solid. Beyond the bay loom glittering glaciers and towering, rocky peaks. On the south and east rises a blinding white shelf of permanent ice, so thick that it grinds against the seabed far below. And to the north is a snow- covered volcano that continuously belches noxious fumes. This is the bottom of the world, where winds can reach...
...there was considerable property damage -- about $300 million in Texas alone, where insulating home water pipes is seldom the uppermost thought on a homeowner's mind. Plumbers, not surprisingly, finished the year working overtime. Coming on the heels of two hurricanes as well as several floods and hailstorms, the frigid interlude signaled that home-insurance rates in the Lone Star State are likely...