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U.S. NEWSSaturday 30 December 2017

Enduring cold snap creates headaches at home, on highways

Joe Scharpf cross country skis on a trail after a fresh snowfall in the south chagrin reservation of tion’s fifth-largest transit sys- into the single digits as far
the Cleveland Metroparks, in Moreland Hills, Ohio. Scharpf said he will ski about 6 miles on the tem. south as Oklahoma and
trail. The Massachusetts Bay sink to zero or below Friday
Transportation Authority night in Nebraska and Iowa
(AP Photo/Tony Dejak) has spent heavily to win- and remain there for at
terize what’s known as the least three days.
Continued from Front Erie, Pennsylvania, where basketball arena after a “T’’ since it was crippled “It’s pretty unusual to get
65 inches have fallen since frozen water pipe burst and by record-breaking snow- that long of a streak where
Police in the Cincinnati Christmas Eve. Now parts flooded a hallway, but the fall in 2015. But the agency it’s completely below zero,”
area say a half-dozen cars of the surrounding county mess wasn’t expected to reported “severe delays” said Iowa’s State Climatol-
have been stolen in recent could get up to 16 inches interrupt a game Friday. on one of its lines Friday, ogist Harry Hillaker. “Histori-
days after being left run- of more snow by Sunday. Diann Wears, of Toledo, citing a broken piece of cally, that doesn’t happen
ning unattended by own- A call center set up to help said she was already fed track and a disabled train, very often in Des Moines.”
ers trying to warm them up. people dig out has been up with winter as she stood among other problems. The Pacific Northwest and
Cincinnati police warned in overwhelmed. “The phones along a slush-covered side- Crews worked through the northern Rockies braced
a tweet that leaving your have been ringing off the walk while waiting for a bus. night to repair cracked for storms forecasters
car running means “the hook,” said Josh Jaeger, a “And it’s just the begin- rails and broken switches warned could bring sev-
only person who will be coordinator for the center ning,” she said Friday. “I’m ahead of the Friday morn- eral feet of mountain snow
warm is the thief who stole told the Erie Times-News. sure it will get worse.” ing commute. and freezing rain. Fireworks
your car.” Cleanup continued inside Frigid conditions in Boston Several deaths have been shows have been called off
More snow is on the way in Michigan State University’s took their toll on the na- linked to the wintry weather in Omaha and at Six Flags
during the past week. Great Adventure in New
In South Dakota, an Jersey. And New York City’s
83-year-old woman died Coney Island says it will be
from exposure to the cold too cold for free rides on
after she crashed her car the Wonder Wheel and
and then got out to look for Thunderbolt roller coaster.
help. Search crews found Animal advocates urged
her body in a ditch on Sun- people to protect their pets
day. Three people were from the cold. Wild animals
found dead in a canal weren’t immune from the
along Lake Erie earlier this dangers of winter, either.
week after their car slid off In Ohio, wildlife officers
an icy road. mulled how to rescue a
The National Weather Ser- deer whose legs were stuck
vice predicts another blast in an ice-covered river.
of arctic air will chill much They managed to lasso the
of the eastern two-thirds of deer with a rope and pull
the U.S. through the week- it to shore Friday, but they
end and into 2018. later had to euthanize the
Temperatures could fall injured animal.q

Trump says East could use some ‘global warming’ this weekend

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) Thursday, “In the East, it Bundle up!” Trump has repeatedly ex- climate agreement aimed
— President Donald Trump could be the COLDEST New The president did not ac- pressed skepticism about at curbing greenhouse gas
says the East Coast “could Year’s Eve on record.” knowledge the difference climate change science, production. The accord set
use a little bit of that good He added: “Perhaps we between the weather and calling global warming a goals for slowing the rate of
old Global Warming” as bit- could use a little bit of that the climate. “hoax” created by the Chi- climate change by reduc-
terly cold temperatures are good old Global Warming Weather refers to the at- nese to damage American ing the emissions that con-
expected to freeze large that our Country, but not mospheric conditions dur- industry. tribute to melting Arctic ice,
swaths of the country this other countries, was going ing a shorter period, while He announced earlier this increasing sea levels and
holiday weekend. to pay TRILLIONS OF DOL- climate is a longer view of year his intention to pull changing weather patterns
Trump wrote on Twitter LARS to protect against. weather patterns. out of the landmark Paris across the globe.q