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Blizzard pounds East Coast with driving snow, wind
Summary from multiple countries, from articles in English
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A howling blizzard slammed the Northeast on Sunday with more than 2 feet of snow and hurricane-strength wind gusts, halting air travel for thousands of people, keeping others off slippery highways and burying parked cars under deep drifts. (article 7)
A blizzard dumping some two feet of snow enveloped Rhode Island on Sunday, bringing high winds that officials said hampered efforts to keep up with the storm. (article 6)
Gov. Jodi Rell urged Connecticut residents to stay home Sunday to give nearly 900 work crews a chance to clear roadways after a mammoth blizzard covered the state with 8 to 20 inches of snow. (article 12)
Southern, coastal and central sections were hardest hit by the storm, and an inch or two more snow was forecast for Sunday afternoon on the coast, which also was to see wind gusts of up to 50 mph. (article 8)
A powerful "nor'easter" storm that earlier wrought havoc in the U.S. Midwest and mid-Atlantic states battered coastal New England with strong wind gusts and dumped more than 2 feet of snow on some areas. (article 5)
A dangerous blizzard packing high winds and creating whiteout conditions pummeled Eastern Massachusetts yesterday, and residents braced for coastal flooding, power outages, and 2 feet or more of snow. (article 11)
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snow, storm, Sunday, flights, airport |
Source articles
- Blizzard Maroons Thousands at Airports (L.A. Times, 01/23/2005, 904 words)
- Winter Storm Slams Northeast (L.A. Times, 01/23/2005, 681 words)
- Blizzard has Northeast in deep (dallasnews.com, 01/23/2005, 315 words)
- Philly, Pittsburgh work to clear fields of snow (ABCNews, 01/23/2005, 673 words)
- Blizzard Wallops Northeast U.S., Snarls Travel (boston.com, 01/23/2005, 542 words)
- Rhode Island copes with fierce winter storm (boston.com, 01/23/2005, 654 words)
- Blizzard pounds East Coast with driving snow, wind (boston.com, 01/23/2005, 478 words)
- Big snow blankets much of New Hampshire (boston.com, 01/23/2005, 347 words)
- US snowstorms trigger emergencies (BBC News, 01/24/2005, 203 words)
- CBC News: Winter wallops Atlantic Canada, again (cbc.ca, 01/24/2005, 342 words)
- Blizzard wallops N.E. (boston.com, 01/23/2005, 465 words)
- Blizzard leaves big cleanup job for Connecticut (boston.com, 01/23/2005, 469 words)
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