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(AP) ? The Sun Belt became the Snow Belt i
until the ice and snow from the weekend's w
began melting Monday afternoon.
Weathermen said the week-end storm ? tl
years for most of the South ? resulted as extren
from the frigid Northeast collided with warm
'When the hell are the snon
getting here?'
northward from the Gulf and low pressure it
ward from Texas.
DURING THE HEIGHT of the storm Saturda
Sunday, more than a foot of snow hit some east*
oi tne area, treezing rain snapped power 1
western sections, leaving more than 100,000 pers
electricity.
At least 13 persons were killed in weather
cidents ? four each in Georgia and South Cz
each in Louisiana and Mississippi and one in Ter
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AT LEAST 15 students were Key, sp<
treated for snow-related injuries at President
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Center, according to Registered mainly in
Nurse Cleatis Walker. Most of the through r
injuries involved students falling Key also
on the ice and incurring cuts and "irate n
bruises, she said. Monday,
passing <
Health Center personnel said a Blossoms
fpw stuHAnk ujprp ininrnH fw>anco
of "make-do" sleds, including "The big
dining trays and cardboard . has been si
Police Ch
There were various heating said,
problems during the weekend, Also, a
although Pete Stiehr, maintenance fight, invc
manager of the Physical Plant said students, t
the incidents were not storm Russell H
related. lined each
The Roost was without heat for a pelted pas
r t ^ ? ... . Kallo
lew nours sunaay nigni, out 1V^ w???s?.
maintenance workers, some car was pu
working double shifts, managed to l"e ?"icer
restore power, Stiehr said. He Green Strc
blamed the lack of heat on "control
problems." Co Si
According to Stiehr, isolated |n?
rooms in Capstone Dormitory also wfW JJ
suffered heating outages Sunday.
There were "no major stormrelated
outages," he said. "I don't t
foresee any more problems.
THERE WERE "three or four" ^
reported cases of vandalism
Monday at the McBryde 9flOQ
Quadrangle, according to George xUVT
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At least 13pers
t tempore
'or 48 hours, Airports throughout the South begat
inter storm MnnHnv
Thousands of stranded, north-be
he worst in began moving out of Atlanta's Ha
nely cold air Airport, the world's second busiest. /
air moving been closed for a few hours Sunday,
" reopened late Monday afternoon.
r plOWS In south Florida, thousands of touri
another day to their holiday in th
because of airport closings in the 1
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luvinif easi- r~~~ , , ....
Treacherous road conditions for
iv nicht and schools, businesses and institutions th
era sections area? arK* most of the South enjoyed s
ines in the Monday.
ons without In Nort^ Carolina, skiers piled into i
as managers reported "fantastic con'
-related ac- hauled 120 to 150 Boy Scouts out of P
irolina two an(*severa^ hikers from the Appalach
inessee. IN GEORGIA, children and adults
lal day to drop a course without penalty has been ex
y at 5 p.m. Drop slips can be picked up in Petigru
Dy me aean or aaviser 01 tne college in which a i
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adline for applying for spring graduation is also Thu
dents can pick up application forms in room 101 Pet
in somce.
jcial assistant to the a Richland County
for Security and Com- deputy was also atta
>ns. He said the incidents snow and ice, and he
volved snowballs thrown vehicle on the sidewall
oom and lobby windows, tempt to disperse tl
said there were many Following this incidenl
notorists" on campus regrouped and attac
as students pelted other. No iniuries were r
:ars with snowballs on
ind Green streets.
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[gest problem we've had
nowball fights," Campus ^
lief Marvin Harrelson L VI J
large - scale snowball Ijj ; j j i
living an estimated 300
>roke out in front of the
ouse Monday. Students
side of Green Street and BBB AI I At?
sing cars with snow and . ^
A Columbia City Police
immeled by snowballs as | T_;- . " :
attempted to drive down f'lffr
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rolina "To
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[oast Beef
^ith potato, tossed f
alad with dressina
a
ons killed
irilvSnou
i resuming operations boxes, trays, trash can lids
sleds. Skiers cruised the hi!
>und air passengers four inches of sleet. As th
rtsfield International Monday, snowmen were bu
ill three runways had waged.
but the third runway In South Carolina, snow f
sts were forced to add 'I'm SOFty, my 1
e 70-degree sunshine liAra '
Northeast. Few com- C*iC7.
.. . . , coast, burying historic Cha
ced the closings of covering golf courses on H
iroughout the affected Beach
in unexpected holiday Columbia motel clerk Jose
. 4 naa as a guest a man trom
mountain area resorts closing of Columbia's Metroj
iitions. But rescuers "When the hell are the si
isgah National Forest man asked
ian Trail. Vancini replied, "I'm sorr
converted cardboard here."
tended to
and must
rsday at 5 H I J ?I i P
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drove his I
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crowd. ^ gfflBk * A l*
students
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and table tops into makeshift
lis of Atlanta, which received
e frozen stuff began melting
ilt and snowball battles were
ell from the mountains to the
friend. It ain't like
rleston with eight inches and
ilton Head Island and Mvrtle
ph Vancini, a native of Boston,
his hometown stranded by the
>olitan Airport.
now plows getting here?" the
y, my friend. It ain't like that
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