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Floods, Ice Hit Northwest After Snowstorm

Matt Cantor — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:25:05 CST

Days after a new "Snowmaggedon" slammed the Pacific Northwest, an ice storm and floods have left two dead in the region. Seattle's snow began Tuesday night; the city measured a daily snowfall of 6.8 inches early yesterday, blowing away the previous record of 2.9 inches in 1954. Washington's...

Passengers Brawl as Storms Paralyze Russia's Airports

Mark Russell — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 04:00:00 CST

Furious Moscow airport passengers scuffled with employees and hundreds tried to rush a passport barrier at Sheremetyevo to board planes as weather continued to paralyze travel. Russian President Medvedev is calling for prosecutors to investigate what is being called the worst meltdown in Russian air travel in 15 years after...

Ky. Deploys National Guard for Ice Storm Relief

Drew Nelles — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:45:30 CST

Kentucky has deployed 4,600 of its National Guard troops to go door-to-door in what the state's governor is calling "the biggest natural disaster that this state has ever experienced in modern history.” At least seven—and as many as 21—people may have died as a result of a...

More Than 1M Still Powerless After Ice Storm

Kevin Spak — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:25:01 CST

From Missouri to West Virginia, thousands of people are still holed up in makeshift shelters as utility crews frantically work to return water and heat to their homes, the AP reports. More than 1.3 million homes remain without power after the recent ice storm, and though workers are making...

Storm Leaves 1.4M Without Power; 23 Dead

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:57:41 CST

More than a million people shivered in ice-bound homes across the country tonight, waiting for utility crews to restring power lines brought down by a storm that killed 23 as it moved from the Southern Plains to the East Coast. But with temperatures plunging, utility officials warned that it could...

Ice Shuts School, Baffles Obama Girls

Ambreen Ali — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:37:13 CST

The ice storm plowing through Washington has many grown-ups wary of stepping outside, but it hasn’t fazed the first daughters, Politico reports. The Midwesterners were unimpressed that their school closed, President Obama said today, noting that Chicago schools never close. “My 7-year-old pointed out that in Chicago you’d go outside...

Storm Kills 19, Cuts Power to 600K in South, Midwest

Harry Kimball — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:08:50 CST

A storm sweeping from the middle of the country into the Northeast today has left at least 19 dead and cut power to 600,000 people, the AP reports. In hard-hit states like Arkansas, where power companies warned service might not return for days, 3 inches of ice weighed down...

Ice, Snow Spread From Plains to East

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:08:54 CST

Schools closed and thousands of homes and businesses had no electricity today as a storm spread a coating of ice and snow on roads and power lines from the southern Plains to the mid-Atlantic states. At least seven deaths had been blamed on the weather. Highway department crews were out...

Short on Salt, Towns Turn to Molasses

Clay Dillow — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:45:59 CST

With the weather outside frightful and rock-salt prices spiking, communities across the country are experimenting with new concoctions for melting snow and ice on roadways, the Wall Street Journal reports, adding molasses, ash, and garlic salt to deicers. The price of salt generally surges after the New Year as communities...