Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four days, the heaviest blizzard to hit the High Sierra in 30 years deposited 12 ft. of snow. Near Lake Tahoe, vacationers and mountain residents were stranded when major highways were closed, many blocked by snow slides. Several homes had been crushed by sliding snow masses; one California highway patrolman was buried briefly in his squad car near Truckee, Calif. Throughout the surrounding mountains, avalanche patrols used explosives and 75-mm howitzers to blast away dangerous snow formations, trying to keep pace with the blizzard and avert a catastrophe...
...Squaw Valley, seven miles west of Lake Tahoe, an avalanche crew was trying last Wednesday to dislodge a huge overhang of snow on a ridge overlooking the Alpine Meadows ski resort. The resort, like many others in the Sierras, was officially closed; only about a dozen of its 250 employees were on hand, along with a few valley residents purchasing emergency food supplies at the lodge. Suddenly, in midafternoon, the ridge mass gave way. Propelling 100-m.p.h. winds before it, a wall of snow half a mile wide and 20 ft. high slammed down into the valley snapping...
...kinds of snow abound in Colorado: powder for the slopes and powder for the nose. According to a state survey, a quarter of the people at ski resorts like Aspen ("Toot City") have got their Rocky Mountain highs from cocaine. So it is appropriate that Colorado also boasts the country's only clinic of its type exclusively for coke abusers. Operated by the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver, it has been extraordinarily successful in helping people kick the habit. Its principal method? Self-blackmail. The abuser, who comes to the clinic voluntarily and usually in desperation...
...building's cupola began leaking after last week's snow began to keep through bracks...
Chicago at new York, ppd., snow...