Brutal!
The list of blizzards and Nor’easters that have swept across the country, some of them concentrated over the most heavily populated areas of our nation, reads like a litany of woe.
December 3 – 6, 2013. Schools were closed in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Tennessee as a wintery mix of snow and sleet fell across the central U.S. Parts of Minnesota got up to three feet of snow and wind chills reached 26 below across eastern North Dakota.
December 23 – 26, 2013. In upstate New York and Northern New England, residents faced the harrowing experience of spending Christmas without power after the region was slammed with a horrendous ice storm that brought down tree limbs and snapped power lines.
February 4 – 7, 2014. More than 9,500 flights were delayed and 1,800 cancelled across the country as blizzard conditions swept across the central plains. Schools and state offices were closed throughout Kansas and Missouri as residents were advised to stay in their homes.
February 14, 2014. Slick roads and icy conditions caused cars and 18-wheelers to become involved in an early morning 100 vehicle pileup on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Several hundred more cars were caught in the ensuing gridlock as crews frantically worked to clear the carnage. Normal traffic didn’t resume until later that afternoon. One lady being interviewed on the roadside summed up her feelings by calling this winter “The winter from hell”.
To me, here in Arizona, it has been exactly that.
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Do you mean in Arizona it was hellish cold too ? I doubt that!
boy, you're not kidding!! certainly the winter from hell from where I sit. I think Minnesota broke a record for number of days schools were closed. There were so many, mostly due to the extreme cold wind chills, I lost count! We're still waiting for all of the snow to melt. and we're hoping winter doesn't linger past April like it did last year.....oh please dear God, don't let it be so!