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Almost every community in the northern U.S. uses de-icing salts to help clear snowbound roads. The use of salts is up 300% since 1960 (to 9,000.000 tons last year). Now these cheap and efficient deicers have been identified as an annoying source of pollution in at least 13 states...
...Stretches of the Danube froze over, trapping countless vessels. Drifts blocked approaches to the world's longest underpass, the Simplon twin railway tunnels between Switzerland and Italy. In France's Rhone Valley, some 15,000 vehicles on auto routes to the Riviera were snowbound in drifts as high as 10 ft. Some motorists were trapped for 72 hours in their cars, and two babies were born in the autos before their mothers could be rescued. Normally punctual French trains were canceled or delayed for up to six hours by frozen switches, and by the efforts of engineers...
This crucial venture generates all sorts of wild fantasies a la Frank Merriweather. The scenario has to emerge of a packed Yale Bowl, a tie game in the final minute of play and Wayne Pirmann running out of the locker room after being snowbound in Hanover for two hours...
Ideological Warriors. The variety is enormous, from tank top through the classic skivvy T shirt to the long-sleeved variety favored by snowbound North Dakota farmers. Some models sport one red sleeve and one blue, joined by a rainbowed trunk. Some stop fetchingly just above the navel, others stretch down to the ankle. Almost all flaunt a symbol, and the range is all-encompassing. The ideological warriors can sport the peace sign, the clenched fist marking Women's Liberation or even the Viet Cong flag. Exhibitionists will love the startling model imprinted with a properly located life-size photo...
...managed to force a door in our snowbound prison. Then, using our skis as shovels, we dug our way out. Don't ask me how-it was like little blind animals digging out of a molehill...