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- <text id=93TT1321>
- <title>
- Mar. 29, 1993: In A Class By Itself
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 29, 1993 Yeltsin's Last Stand
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 11
- NATION
- In a Class by Itself
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- <body>
- <p>The Great Storm of '93 spread death and destruction from Cuba
- to Canada
- </p>
- <p> Other storms piled up more snow, recorded higher winds,
- killed more people. But for combined extent and intensity, the
- Blizzard of '93, as it was called in most of the U.S., was in
- a class by itself. Tornadoes in Florida, record cold in Alabama
- (2 degreesF in Birmingham), mountainous snows from North
- Carolina (50 in. at Mount Mitchell) to New York (43 in. at
- Syracuse), hurricane-force winds (110 m.p.h. in Franklin County,
- Florida)--all were part of the same monster storm system that
- from March 12 to March 15 spread death and destruction from
- Cuba, where three died, to the Canadian Maritimes (four killed).
- Deaths totaled 238, and that did not include 48 sailors missing
- from vessels that sank off Nova Scotia and in the Gulf of
- Mexico. Worst tolls: 50 in Pennsylvania, and 44 in Florida,
- where winds made deadly projectiles out of rubble still lying
- on the ground from Hurricane Andrew in August. Helicopters and
- search parties on snowshoes were still looking for hikers and
- campers stranded in Southern U.S. mountains; nine were airlifted
- out of Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains National Park as late
- as Thursday. Economic damages seemed sure to climb well past an
- early guess of $800 million; in New York State, Governor Mario
- Cuomo estimated snow-removal costs alone at $120 million. If it
- was not "the storm of the century," survivors hope they never
- see the real one.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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