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Snow, rain and ice blankets much of US (Paging Al Gore&Gubinor aRnie, Global Warming Alert!)
AFP on Yahoo ^ | 12/22/08 | AFP

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blankets; eggnog; globalcooling; globalwarming; jinglebells; snow; whitechristmas; winter
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To: Perchant

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...


61 posted on 12/22/2008 2:17:49 PM PST by bcsco (Illinois politicians should be read their Miranda rights when sworn in to office...)
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To: Badeye

Yep, lots of people will be using some of those 2009 sick days right off the bat.


62 posted on 12/22/2008 2:30:50 PM PST by Married with Children
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To: bcsco
I’ll use Live Search instead. I have a problem with Google’s politics...

I don't think they have a news archive at live search.

63 posted on 12/22/2008 2:36:16 PM PST by Perchant
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To: Perchant

If not I’ll use Google, but I’ll fume all the while... :)


64 posted on 12/22/2008 2:38:35 PM PST by bcsco (Illinois politicians should be read their Miranda rights when sworn in to office...)
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To: dbz77
I wonder if there was snow in Vegas.

Not today - it was almost 60, mostly cloudy and windy. What's left of last week's snow on the mountains is melting fast.

65 posted on 12/22/2008 3:04:39 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word." -- Robert Heinlein)
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To: NormsRevenge

“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.


66 posted on 12/22/2008 3:43:29 PM PST by Almondjoy
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To: Catholic Canadian

Hey buddy!!!

Where did you find that picture of me???


67 posted on 12/22/2008 5:00:04 PM PST by sig229 (The loonie left "FLUNKED" human nature 101)
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To: NormsRevenge
A row of handsome cabs make their way through Central Park December 20

yes, for a row of hansom cabs, they are handsome as well.

68 posted on 12/22/2008 5:03:31 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: NormsRevenge

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.


69 posted on 12/22/2008 5:21:45 PM PST by BILL_C (Jimmy Carter brought us Ronald Regan, Obama's contribution will be equally good. Is it Sarah?)
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To: dbz77
Acknowledging heavy snow this year, Reuters still sees global warming...

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE4BL1AD20081222

70 posted on 12/22/2008 8:42:42 PM PST by tips up
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To: NormsRevenge
Idiots all.
I took my grand-kids to a science museum today.
There was an exhibit called “extreme freezing and ice because of global warming”.
Even my four year old grandson said “grandma that does not make sense, can we just go see the dinosaurs.”
71 posted on 12/22/2008 9:11:36 PM PST by svcw (Great selection of Christmas gift baskets: http://baskettastic.com/)
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To: NormsRevenge
In Gores world, up is down, cold is hot, boiling is freezing.
72 posted on 12/23/2008 4:28:46 AM PST by tobyhill (No Honeymoon For Obama.)
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To: Almondjoy
Crazy weather. More than half the country is below freezing right now and it's mid-November.


73 posted on 11/15/2014 7:18:54 PM PST by SamAdams76
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