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...presidential leadership, but there was no disputing the fact that Carter was moving fast and forcefully. He dramatized the crisis-and the presidential role in it -by hastily convening a Cabinet meeting, then taking a quick trip to frozen Pittsburgh. He declared eleven states disaster areas because of snow or drought, thus making them eligible for some form of federal assistance...
...ways of coping are as varied as the crisis. With so many cars marooned in the snow, like beasts stricken in their tracks, people ply the icy city streets in snowmobiles. Railroad engineers thaw out frozen whistles with flares and blowtorches. A Burger King in Camden County, N.J., is the envy of the competition. It serves customers twelve hours every day at 70° because it is heated by solar power. In Pittsburgh, a discotheque called Reflections has a sign on the door: THIS ESTABLISHMENT is WARMED BY BODY HEAT...
...dashed hopes that the winter had spent its fury. They detected another cold air mass poised to strike the East Coast. TIME correspondents took a closer look at three widely separated areas in which the topsy-turvy winter has created contrasting effects. New York's Marion Knox examined snow-buried Buffalo, Atlanta's Rudolph Rauch checked the frostbitten citrus groves of central Florida, and San Francisco's Joseph Boyce explored nearby Marin County as the West's disastrous drought grew even worse. Their reports...
...William McKinley's revenge," muttered one Buffalo resident as he squinted through the slits of his frosted face-mask at the snow-encrusted monument to the President who was assassinated in the city in 1901. That explanation made as much sense as any. The 435,000 inhabitants of what local CBers call Nickel City could not help wondering why they and their rural neighbors had been selected for the vengeful Winter of '77's most punishing assault so far. In fact, Buffalo's location on a narrow peninsula, where it catches moisture-laden winds off Lake...
...with little warning across Lake Erie and trapped 17,000 workers in their downtown offices. Some 5,000 automobiles were abandoned by their owners when all traffic stopped; police in the suburban town of Lancaster counted 66 cars in just one two-mile stretch of roadway, some with the snow piled over their roofs. Drivers sought shelter wherever they could find it. Some 400 motorists and stranded downtown workers slept on chairs and the floors of the Liberty Bank Building...