Add to that the occasional hurricane and it is a pile-up waiting to happen.
As well as seven deaths, the pile-up on Friday night left 51 people injured.
Maine had a 19 car pile-up in which fortunately there were no major injuries.
Two lorry drivers killed in an eight-vehicle pile-up on the M6 in south Cumbria have been named.
There was a five-car pile-up on the northbound carriageway of the A483 just outside Wrexham just after 0800 GMT.
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Quins then had a try disallowed by the video referee in the 62nd minute after a pile-up of bodies over the Leinster line.
Police said the pile-up, which happened on the northbound carriageway at about 20:30 GMT, had led to a "massive fireball" at the scene.
Vettel made up 18 points last weekend at Spa when the Spaniard crashed out in the dramatic pile-up at the first corner.
Earlier, Greater Manchester Police said seven people were injured in a pile-up involving up to 10 cars on the frozen A627(M) motorway in Oldham.
China Daily and others also report on a traffic accident in eastern Shandong Province, where at least 50 vehicles were involved in a pile-up.
At least three people have been killed and 25 injured in a pile-up involving almost 100 vehicles in the US state of Virginia, police say.
In the ski resort of Vail, near the multi-car pile-up on Interstate 70, skiers should be able to enjoy replenished slopes under sunny skies Tuesday.
With 1, 600 residents in Bimini, there are no crowds or long lines and rush-hour traffic is often just a three-golf-cart pile-up in a hotel parking lot.
The following year saw one of the periodic Grand National debacles when Easter Hero fell at the Canal Turnm causing a pile-up which left just seven horses standing.
The pile-up of cash must touch off a merger and acquisition binge by the fat cats with mounds of cash and no place to reinvest it in their own business.
The Dragons went back to basics, and a series of short-range forward drives ended with a try for the outstanding Owen, the lock reaching over the top of a pile-up on the Exiles' line.
Not surprisingly, the cutover was a month late and still failed, triggering massive shipping delays, a pile-up of excess inventory, a list of angry customers who refused to pay, millions of dollar in losses and a full-blown liquidity crisis.
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But if neither have the time nor the inclination to comparison shop on every purchase--and given that the more you spend, the more the rewards pile up--you might as well sign on with one supplier to ease the pain.
To put it crudely, in certain instances, the quicker you can pile up well-made bets, the quicker the math works in your favor.
Join the fun, enjoy the food, and pile up the goodies -- we take cash, traveler's checks, Amex, Visa and Mastercard.
That's the first step in the endless cascade of junk mail from credit-card companies that pile up in your mailbox.
And the cost is rising every day, as interest continues to pile up on the soured loans, which make up over three-quarters of all lending.
Truth is, America's tax burden--after you add up state and local and pile on the cost of complying with our buffoonish 54, 000-page tax code--is not much less than Europe's.
Once the euro-zone perks up, investors will pile in and the single currency will recover.
Such giant combines might be able to hike premiums while squeezing spending on patient care even tighter in an effort to rebuild their margins--and continuing to let their chief executives pile up personal fortunes in salary and stock.
"It could be just day-to-day, normal things, but when they pile up, one stressful thing leads to another and before you know it, you've got a full-blown tension headache, " Jaesson said.
Blackburn's 9-yard return put the Giants at the Green Bay 12 and two plays later, Brandon Jacobs leapt over the pile for the one-yard score that would put the Giants up 17-14.
For Merck and Schering-Plough, the pile-on over the cholesterol drug Vytorin shows no signs of letting up.
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