Word: froze
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late in the navigation season to capitalize on rising prices. The 680-mile trip usually takes six to ten days, depending on the traffic at the 26 locks and dams along the way. This time the floating entourage did not reach its destination. A sudden blast of arctic air froze sections of the Mississippi solid, trapping 'the barges near Keokuk, Iowa. Sighs Tom Michael, Cooperative Vanguard 's engineer: "Every time I look out, there's the same...
Across the U.S., the Arctic downdraft froze bodies of water large and small, sometimes with dire results. The Snake River in Idaho was stopped up by a ten-mile-long ice jam, threatening floods, and Louisiana's Red River froze up for the first time this century. Coast Guard cutters freed a dozen Lake Erie freighters stuck in 12-ft.-high windrows of ice, and on the frozen Mississippi River near Keokuk, Iowa, 30 towboats pushing about 430 grain barges are trapped until spring. In the shallow Gulf of Mexico bays from Galveston to Port Isabel, Texas, tens...
...between bucket seats. In Tipple Hill, W. Va., Takeisha and Stacey Craighead, ages seven and five, were killed when a coal-burning stove set fire to their flimsy house. Retiree George Toomer, 77, who lived alone in Akron (-14°), locked the house keys in his car and froze to death in his garage...
...week's end readings had gone as low as a heart-stopping -55° in Wisdom, Mont. Even the Sunbelt shivered. "This is the worst ice storm I've seen in years," said Fort Worth Policeman Henry Green, as the city froze over. "And I've seen some doozies...
...signs of new national prosperity, next Thursday's winter solstice will pass practically unnoticed amid the Christmas rush. But to the homeless, the change of seasons means that it gets harder to survive. During the past two years in New York City, at least 29 street people froze to death. Last February in Atlanta, Roosevelt Richardson, a drunk, climbed into an abandoned car to sleep; gangrene followed frostbite. "I didn't have a blanket," he says. "I guess that's why I lost my feet...