Posted on 12/22/2008 10:04:11 AM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) A massive winter storm blanketed the US West Coast with snow, sleet and ice early Monday while blizzards and snow squalls struck the Northeast and Midwest, killing at least four people and making travel dangerous.
The storm snarled holiday air traffic across the country, with delays at major airports in San Francisco; Houston, Texas; Boston, Massachusetts; New Jersey and New York, officials said.
The fierce weather was blamed for the death of two people in a single-vehicle crash on Interstate Highway 80 east of Des Moines, Iowa.
Another weather-related fatality was reported in northwest Iowa when a farm tractor being used for snow removal slipped off the driveway and overturned, killing the driver, the Des Moines Register newspaper reported.
Drivers blinded by blizzard conditions created a 30-vehicle pile-up on Interstate 94 in western Michigan Sunday. Dozens of the vehicles were also involved in a series of other wrecks nearby, including one that killed a 31-year-old Illinois man, CNN television reported.
Travel was also treacherous in the northwestern states of Oregon and Washington, with heavy rain, sleet and snow expected until 10:00 am (1800 GMT) Monday, the National Weather Service said in its winter storm warning for the region.
"This is probably one of the worst storms since 1990," weather service meteorologist Dana Felton told AFP by phone from Seattle, adding that the last big storm on this scale was on Christmas day 1996.
"This is definitely a once-in-a-decade type of storm."
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Okay, thanks for the info. I’m going to do a lookup later today or tomorrow. I’ll use Live Search instead. I have a problem with Google’s politics...
Yep, lots of people will be using some of those 2009 sick days right off the bat.
I don't think they have a news archive at live search.
If not I’ll use Google, but I’ll fume all the while... :)
Not today - it was almost 60, mostly cloudy and windy. What's left of last week's snow on the mountains is melting fast.
“This is definitely a once-in-a-decade type of storm.”
They said the same thing in early 2004 when we had a storm almost just like this one.
I guess once a decade has moved to twice a decade.
Hey buddy!!!
Where did you find that picture of me???
yes, for a row of hansom cabs, they are handsome as well.
My wish for Christmas is that when the chosen one does his Jan 20th wish list: It is 20 degrees below zero and frostbite is on the day’s warning for Washington, DC.
Obama is dumb enough to complain about global warming, a Marxist social worker with a law degree who doesn’t have a clue about truth.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE4BL1AD20081222
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