Christmas escape as freeze nears
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Millions of Britons are heading off on Christmas trips on Thursday, some to enjoy festive delights in the UK while others escape to warmer climes.
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Mother Nature delivered a bone-chilling Christmas to much of the nation Saturday, but holiday travelers made it out in droves despite record snow that shut down highways two days earlier in the central states.
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By Stan Finger, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Dec. 15--NO RELIEF FOR PARCHED REGION   It's too soon to know whether Wichita will have a white Christmas -- but unless something significant changes soon, it's going to be a brown winter.   And that spells trouble.
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Motorists are warned the arrival of wet and windy weather could make driving difficult on Christmas Eve.
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Barely a creature was stirring in primetime on Christmas Eve. And on Christmas night, more Americans were inclined to watch the Von Trapp family flee the Nazis than revisit George Bailey's classic holiday season meltdown.
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Stormy weather that has dropped heavy snow has hindered the search for a man missing with his three children on a Christmas tree-hunting trek in the Northern California mountains.
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NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Dec. 21 -- Even by the hard-bitten standard of the livelihood they chose, it was a cruel time and place to be lost at sea, tossed in the heaving, frigid swells, a few days before Christmas.
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Millions of people are heading off by road, rail and air today for a great British Bank Holiday getaway - ' despite a gloomy weather forecast.
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By Tara Tuckwiller  tara@wvgazette.com  On a freezing day, the little vacant lot by the railroad tracks looked dreary under its patchy snow.
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Many Christmas Eve travelers around the country got what they wished for Â few airport delays and highways that were mostly clear, despite a deadly weekend snowstorm in the Plains and the Midwest.
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Unprecedented balmy temperatures at the start of Austria's winter have melted away a towering Christmas tree of ice a week after it went on display.Comment
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By Matt Russell, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.  Feb. 3--As we go through the heart of winter, it's time to get off the couch and enjoy what the frosty months of Minnesota have to offer.
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Residents of Victoria, Tex., just off the Gulf Coast, were not dreaming yesterday when they woke up to a white Christmas. Almost a foot of snow fell overnight to give Victoria a taste
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Snow showers are forecast to ease across the UK after widespread falls brought a white Christmas to many areas.
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A calm Christmas Day dawned for residents of the interior West, Southwest and Northeast, though storms loomed over the Southeast, Pacific Northwest and Midwest.
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A sleigh and eight tiny reindeer would have been a more reliable way to travel this holiday than the nation&#39;s airlines. While delays due to weather are unavoidable, it&#39;s hard to understand the numerous cancellations
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In the ski town of Breckenridge, the holiday rush is for the slopes, not the shops. Residents can buy a Christmas tree, upscale clothing, boots or trendy cookware but will be hard-pressed to find an iPod along Main Street. Thing is, residents in the quaint Victorian-style resort about 100 miles west of Denver like it that way.