Midwesterners in the Clutches of a Deep and Deadly Freeze
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CHICAGO, Dec. 11 -- Snow and ice storms battering the Midwest since the weekend have caused at least 23 deaths, snarled air travel, closed schools, left thousands without electricity and temporarily halted presidential campaigning in Iowa.
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DENVER, Feb. 24 -- A large, fast-moving snowstorm closed sections of major highways in the Plains on Saturday and threatened to dump more than a foot of snow on the Upper Midwest.
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A severe winter storm dumped snow and  freezing rain across the Midwest and mid-Atlantic United States  on Sunday, stranding air travelers from Boston to Chicago and  causing several traffic deaths.
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A heavy, wet winter snowstorm made travel treacherous on Friday in the Midwest and Northeast and was blamed for at least 10 traffic deaths.
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Thousands of people left stranded as heaviest snowfall for 50 years hits central and southern areas
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Thousands of homes and businesses had no electricity in the Midwest as a storm blustered through the region with heavy snow and howling wind.
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Residents in the eastern United States and parts of Canada have driven on treacherously icy roads and dug out of the first major snow storm to hit the region this year.
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Winter iced romance for millions of Americans on Wednesday as a Valentine's Day storm disrupted the annual hearts and flowers festival from Midwestern states to the Atlantic shore and southern Canada.
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Sunny skies on Monday helped road crews deal with the remnants of a blustery snowstorm that blacked out thousands of homes and businesses and was blamed for at least 22 traffic deaths in the upper Midwest.
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Authorities struggled to remove abandoned cars and reopen slick highways across the nation's midsection after a record snowfall buried the region and stranded holiday travelers and shoppers.
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CINCINNATI, Ohio  - A winter storm barreled out of  the U.S. Midwest on Thursday, creating misery for holiday  travelers, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of  people and breaking snowfall records.
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Even as a deadly snowstorm loosened its grip on the upper Midwest, officials warned that holiday travelers still faced treacherous roadways Monday.
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Temperatures plummeted across the eastern half of the nation Monday, approaching an all-time record in northern Minnesota and freezing the Gulf Coast as a river of Arctic air pushed southward.
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A bone-chilling cold wave with temperatures as low as 42 below zero shut down schools for thousands of youngsters Monday, sent homeless people into shelters and put car batteries on the disabled list from the northern Plains across the Great Lakes. At least four deaths were linked to the cold weather.
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After three nights in a freezing, powerless home, Jeanetta Plunkett couldn't take any more. She picked up her two young grandchildren and sought refuge at a shelter for people who lost electricity after a huge ice storm.
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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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Snow fell in much of the nation's East and midsection on Tuesday. The snow mixed with rain near the coast, but cold air kept it as all snow in the Midwest.