My cable went out last night just before primetime thanks to a bad ice storm.
About a year after we started our company an ice storm shut down the city.
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As the power companies were reconnecting the last of their customers, another ice storm arrived.
But in last month's ferocious ice storm, Quebeckers wanted their leaders on hand.
Surprised to see him during business hours, he told me that state employees were still off for the ice storm.
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Other than JetBlue 's much publicized ice storm fiasco in February, customers seem to be engaged in a general rage against the industry machine.
In an ice storm, if the car in front of you is skidding from side to side, you can bet that the road is slippery.
An ice storm shut down roads and airports in Iowa Saturday, but that wasn't enough to stop the presidential campaign now roaring through the state.
In early 2007 it took a hit when nine planes were stranded on a tarmac for more than six hours each during an ice storm.
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But it took a Valentine's Day ice storm and the scenes of planes stuck on the runway for more than 10 hours to give the issue traction.
Born in Taiwan, he'd directed "The Ice Storm" and other American films before "Crouching Tiger" and set out to make a picture that would please both sides of the Pacific.
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Other than JetBlue 's (nasdaq: JBLU - news - people ) much publicized ice storm fiasco in February, customers seem to be engaged in a general rage against the industry machine.
In Minnesota, Governor Mark Dayton declared a state of emergency after communities in the south-west of the state - already struggling to restore power from an earlier ice storm - were buried under heavy snow.
We worked right through the ice storm.
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Updates to the new game from Bejeweled 2 include new gems, badges for completing challenges (though no sharing function or leaderboard yet) and new secret games like Ice Storm and Poker, which offer a twist on the Bejeweled theme.
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GM's vice president for research and development, Lawrence Burns, says consumers have to start thinking of their car as a power-supplying appliance as well as a means of transportation. (A hybrid car, for example, might be an alternative to an emergency generator during an ice storm.) Meanwhile, GM is endorsing Huber's thinking with plans to introduce plug-in versions of the Chevrolet Volt and a Saturn vue crossover by 2010.
The researchers also included projections for sea level rise in Europe that includes the effects of thermal expansion, ice melt and storm surges.
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But a severe storm caused the offshore waters to fill with ice, leaving the barge unable to get in, said Jason Evans, the company's chairman.
The MTA was also preparing for the need to protect drivers after the height of the storm, when refreezing and melting conditions could produce dangerous ice buildup on suspension bridge cables.
As we poke about the town, which spirals up out of the plain like the tip of a caramel ice cream cone, the first snowflakes drift down, foreshadowing an impending storm.
Martin's largest "Song of Ice and Fire" novel (the 973-page fan-favorite "A Storm of Swords"), the writer-producer duo are delivering slightly longer episodes to the network.
Storm of Swords is the best of the five books Martin has penned in A Song of Ice and Fire.
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Johnson, the deputy director of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), said Monday that Hurricane Gustav was expected to be a catastrophic storm when it reached land late Monday morning, but there was enough food, water, ice and other supplies stockpiled for 1 million victims over the next three days.
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