Meanwhile, a dog walker in Saltburn, Cleveland, was rescued by a police helicopter after falling down a steep snow-covered slope in a densely-wooded area.

BBC: Fresh snow brings school closures

We do funerals nicely here, elegies and memorials, "celebrations of life, " we call them, whether it's a ninety year old math professor in a nursing home or an unlucky student drunkenly falling into a snow bank or tumbling down an elevator shaft.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Gone Tomorrow'

Snow had started falling again, in tiny flakes at first and then in thicker chunks slanting down from a dark, milky sky.

NEWYORKER: The Repatriates

"I woke up this morning and the wind was blowing, the snow was flying, the temperatures were falling, and I said 'Punxsutawney, you let us down, ' " the prosecutor told CNN affiliate WXIX.

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