Blaming Begins As N.C. Thaws From Storm
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A mere inch of snow was all it took to cripple North Carolina's capital &#151; and prompt plenty of finger-pointing Thursday as the city thawed from the surprise storm that caused gridlock and left 3,000 students stranded in classrooms overnight.
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HALIFAX (CP) - Winter arrived with a windy fury Monday in Atlantic Canada, leaving residents to dig out from a thick blanket of wet snow that clogged roads, disrupted holiday travel and suspended drilling at an offshore rig.
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Tropical Storm Gabrielle strengthened  slightly as it neared the North Carolina coast on Sunday but it  was not expected to reach hurricane strength as it passed over  the Outer Banks and curved back out into the Atlantic, U.S.  forecasters said.
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By Nick G. Maheras, High Point Enterprise, N.C.  Feb. 1--HIGH POINT -- The potential for ice-laden trees and electric lines causing power outages had city and school offi cials scrambling Wednesday.
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By Travis Talent, High Point Enterprise, N.C.  Jun. 1--DAVIDSON COUNTY -- Mother Nature has not been kind to the state so far in 2007.
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Residents of New England woke Tuesday to more than a foot of snow in some areas and hazardous roads following a major winter storm that caused power outages, canceled flights and gave thousands of school children a day off
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A winter storm left hundreds of travelers stranded on Interstate 95 in eastern North Carolina late Sunday, and contributed to hundreds of traffic accidents, at least two of them fatal.
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A deadly winter storm brought snow and sleet to the Northeast on Thursday, while crews in the Plains and Midwest worked to restore power to hundreds of thousands
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  May 26--Mother Nature is a relentless force, and nowhere is that better displayed than along North Carolina's coast. Wind and surf tirelessly reshape the islands, or try to, with little mere mortals can do to stop them.
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A town in Ohio brought out snowplows and fire hoses Monday to clear the muck away. In New Jersey, the Statehouse was closed after its parking garage was flooded by the Delaware River.
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A day after seeing rare snowfall, a frozen South was waiting to thaw Sunday. Elsewhere in the nation, football fans were preparing for NFL games that promised to be cold at best -- and downright bone-chilling at worst.
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There was rain. There was howling wind. And to complete the misery, there was cold, with temperatures barely edging past 50.
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 24--South Carolina's legal salvo over the Catawba River, fired at its northern neighbor this month, was the latest sign of strain in a Southeast that has always seemed awash in water.
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A large, fast-moving snowstorm that closed sections of major highways on the Plains on Saturday was blamed for seven traffic deaths, while strong winds in Arkansas cut a 5-mile-long swath of damage, destroying buildings and leaving several people injured.
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NAGS HEAD, N.C., Sept. 10 -- Tropical Storm Gabrielle struggled to stay organized as it moved back over the Atlantic Ocean early Monday, leaving in its wake wet but largely unimpressed vacationers and surfers on North Carolina's Outer Banks.
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The U.S. National Hurricane Center on   Wednesday placed a hurricane watch on North Carolina and   reduced the alert for the Georgia coast to a tropical storm   warning, as Tropical Storm Ernesto swept up the Atlantic Coast.
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RALEIGH, North Carolina  - Tropical Storm Ernesto   hit North Carolina near hurricane strength on Thursday,   flooding some coastal areas in both Carolina states though   there were no immediate reports of casualties.