West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin declared a state of emergency after more than 500, 000 customers in 27 counties were left without electricity because of the storm.
Labour peer Lord Campbell-Savours told Earl Attlee that tickets purchased on the day of travel "are invariably far more expensive that advanced travel tickets", and asked whether the European comparisons were based "on the former or the latter".
More agreeable was his duty as earl marshal, choreographing the annual opening of Parliament by the monarch, a ceremony largely unchanged since medieval times.
The Earlof Hines (as Bugs Bunny referred to him in a 1955 cartoon) is a much more proactive pianist-leader than his fellow royals Duke Ellington and Count Basie.