Snow forces many school closures
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Thousands of schools across Wales and England are forced to close by the heaviest snowfall for years.
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A snowstorm shut thousands of schools and left more than two million homes and businesses without power.
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LUBBOCK, Tex. - Wet snow blanketed parts of Texas Tuesday, closing roads and cutting power to thousands. The heaviest accumulation Tuesday was more than a foot in the Lubbock area, where the storm closed
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Yesterday's slush-turned-snowstorm had been mostly plowed and shoveled by this morning, but many school systems said they would open two hours late and many schools in the outer Virginia suburbs closed altogether.
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Severe snowstorms over broad swaths of eastern and central China have wreaked havoc on traffic throughout the country.
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Heavy snow has forced the closure of runways at airports in southern England and Wales, as bad weather caused commuter chaos at the height of the morning rushhour.
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Hundreds of motorists were stranded in a massive traffic pileup on Thursday and classes were canceled for thousands of students as the Midwest dug out from a major snowstorm.
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More than 1,000 flights are cancelled in the US Midwest and North-east because of severe snowstorms.
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A strong snowstorm that cut visibility nearly to zero in some places as it rolled across the Plains on Saturday caused numerous vehicle pileups and forced authorities to close portions of several major highways.
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Heavy snowfall and freezing temperatures  shut down schools, paralyzed traffic and grounded airplanes in  Greece and Turkey on Monday.
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By Jan Perry  Good golly, Miss Molly, it's been cold out there! So cold that some schools have been closed.
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BANGKOK: More than half of all schools in one of southern Thailand&#39;s most strife-torn provinces have been closed following the murder of two teachers by suspected Islamic militants, education officials said.
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By ROGER PETTERSON A bone-chilling arctic 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.
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For many kids in the Midwest and Northeast, Feb. 14 was a day off from school. Instead of bundling up to head to class, it was a day for sledding and for making snow angels and snowmen. Sure sounds like fun.
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A blinding snowstorm blew across the Plains on Saturday, causing at least two deaths and dozens of injuries in numerous multi-car pileups and forcing authorities to close portions of several major highways.
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TRENTON, Ohio  -- Two teenage girls posted a fake announcement on their school district's Web site that said school was closed for the day due to winter weather, police said.
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Snow and ice spread across wide sections of the Ohio Valley on Tuesday, closing schools, littering roads with cars that had spun out and canceling an appearance by first lady Laura Bush.