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ICICLES HUNG from sign posts, gate posts and fence posts after last Wednesq day’s storm.
moratorium was placed on shipping fruit from the state. In Texas, the Panhandle was hit with five inches of snow on Christmas morning. That state’s citrus crop suffered a $30 million loss.
Around the nation 390 people were killed in weather-related incidents during the two week cold spell that started December 17.
The coldest it got was in West Yellowstone, Montana. There it was 36 degrees below zero on Christmas Day.
Chicago had the record for the longest consecutive cold spell. There it was below zero for lOO'/a hours straight.
The lowest temperature at Dulles was two below — at 11 on Christmas morning — not far from the record. Since the weather service started gathering statistics there, the coldest temperature recorded was 14 below in February, 1979.
Such was the situation just one week into a winter already fraught with frost.
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