Some of these homeowners had rented rooms at reduced rates to family, friends and local eccentrics--people who couldn't afford lodging after the storm.

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The Audubon Zoo is open on weekends, although the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, which lost most of its fish after the storm knocked out power, won't reopen until summer.

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April snowstorms aren't unusual in Wyoming and the Rocky Mountain West, but the storm comes after a rather tame winter in many areas.

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The machinery for track switches and motors on subway systems is often many decades old, and replacements aren't readily available when stores of backup parts have been used up as PATH's was after the storm.

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