Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Monday was unquestionably Georgia's coldest day of the century. But then snow and freezing rain began on Tuesday. More snow fell on Wednesday. And the day after. In Atlanta, which does not have a single municipal snowplow, the first flurries appeared at the beginning of the afternoon rush hour, and immediately prompted an even more chaotic commuter scramble. Peachtree Street, the city's main thoroughfare, was hopelessly jammed until midnight with stalled and sliding cars. Mused one former Chicagoan: "I feel a little ridiculous being snowbound in 1 ½ in. of snow." Many motorists simply abandoned their...
...Englanders would feel cheated if a winter passed without deep snow and a stern, bitter chill. Accordingly, the region's residents largely professed indifference to the ubiquitous cold. Yes, it was -23° in Chester, Mass. Yes, the record cold in Worcester (-8°) broke a local television station's transmitter and knocked out broadcasting for a day. And, yes, the freezing temperatures in Boston caused subway rails to crack. But stoicism hardly faltered. Said NWS Meteorologist John Pollock of Concord, N.H. (where it was -10°); "This is just beautiful New England weather...
...unheated apartment: "Before I went to bed I put on sweat pants, long Johns, four sweaters and three pairs of socks. On top of that I had blankets and a quilt. I still woke up and was so cold I cried." In New Hampshire, where nearly a foot of snow fell in two days, the storms' dangers were taken seriously: firemen in Nashua (pop. 67,865) urged that the town's schoolchildren be conscripted for a day to shovel out buried hydrants...
...just talked about the good times. I can see that he loves it out here. He bought a place in Skyline [a half hour south of San Francisco]. He's had some of the best of California so far." Joe agrees. "I do like California," he says. "No snow, no scraping windshields. In the wintertime back home, there's just football. Here, it may not even be football weather. You can hide a little better. People say it's boring, but I like it a little boring...
...only for football and offers fine sight lines, as well as what CBS claims is some of the best lighting for television in the country. As for the feared Midwest blizzard, inside there is the inflatable dome's weather-controlled environment; outside more than 100 Michigan highway department snow-removal trucks with 500 tons of rock salt are ready to pounce like orange-painted linebackers on the first snowflake that dares to fall on Super Sunday...