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hasn’t been much recovery time,” said Ray Waldman of the National Weather Service there. “Besides, they’ve all come when it has been very cold. That has made it difficult for the snow removal equipment to operate, not to mention the people.” Chicago started out the New Year with a bang—bearing the brunt of a whopper storm that extended from the Far West to Missouri. The snow stopped as many as 100,000 travelers in their tracks at the city’s O’Hare International Airport.
Victims of canceled flights waited two and three days in the coffee-stained, trashstrewn terminal while, in some cases, their baggage flew on to St. Louis or Albuquerque.
For those saddled with the task of keeping O’Hare’s roads and runways free of snow and ice, winter ’79 quickly became the one they’d most like to forget. Things got so bad in midJanuary that the airport completely closed down for about 46 hours. 4 "I’m guessing our snow and ice removal costs will add up to nearly $7 million,” said John Carr, acting airport manager. “And that is a record.”
United Airlines, headquartered in Chicago, also has put “snow” on the dirty-word list. In the first seven weeks of the year snow forced the airline to cancel a record 7,500 flights nationally.
Meals Down the Drain
Chicago Restaurateurs have a few naughty words for snow, too.' The Chicago & Illinois Restaurant Association estimates that since the first of the year, snow has cost the city’s restaurant owners at least $5 million in lost business.
For much of the Midwest, January was one big snowstorm. Milwaukee had four big snows in a row. The city quickly exhausted its $3million budget for snow removal.
“Our big headache was cars—the plows couldn’t get through,” said a tired assistant superintendent ol sanitation and snow removal, Ray Caplan. “In the month of January, if I got three hours’ sleep I was fortunate.”
People were not the onlj ones to suffer this winter Thousands of deer, antelope and elk died in Colorado and Wyoming when an unusually deep pack of ice and snow blocked them from their foot supply.
Cattle in Nebraska died when the snow got too dee[ for them to reach their food Even some farmers it isolated areas relied or airdrops to eat.
As February came to i close, the Midwest was struct
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