• In case of the latter, pack an emergency kit for the trunk that, at the least, contains jumper cables, a flashlight, ice scraper, flares or warning triangles, extra gloves and hats, blankets, snacks, a first aid kit and a small snow shovel and a bag of sand or cat litter to help should your car get stuck in the snow.

    FORBES: Stress-Reducing Holiday Road-Trip Tips

  • His big ears, barrel chest, striking blue eyes and helmet of seemingly electrified hair jet black at first and ultimately snow white made him instantly recognizable, a celebrity long before most authors were lured out into the limelight.

    CNN: Newsmaker: Norman Mailer

  • Last winter, she went snow shoeing with classmates for the first time and she completed a 7-mile walk-run with her family last May.

    WSJ: Kids With Asthma Play Hard, Too

  • SPACs may be the first indication of a sustained recovery, like daffodils poking up through the snow.

    FORBES: SPAC My Pitch Up

  • Union president Ed Bailey said he appreciated the minister meeting members at a farm near Llanidloes to learn first hand the impact the snow was having on them.

    BBC: Farmers plead for snow emergency aid to Welsh government

  • It is here, over the tops of the inevitable ducks, that Gokyo Ri first comes into view, its brown rounded form a contrast to the snow-covered, sharp-tipped lines of Cho Oyu beyond.

    BBC: Nepal��s other Everest

  • Their delicate texture alone is enough to make a hunter strap on his boots at the first trickle of melting snow.

    NPR: Morel Satisfaction: Stalking the Wild Mushroom

  • The first rain of the year, which fell last week, turned the Kukcha river, a snow-fed torrent that rushes through the town, from its normal milky jade to a muddy brown.

    ECONOMIST: Missing trees reflect the country's woeful recent history

  • In Massachusetts, Gov. Deval Patrick enacted a statewide driving ban for the first time since the Blizzard of '78, a ferocious storm that dropped 27 inches of snow, packed hurricane-force winds and claimed dozens of lives.

    WSJ: Behemoth storm drops 2 feet of snow on Northeast

  • Rather than ride into the park on snowmobiles from the town of West Yellowstone, we opted for a trip on a historic yellow snow coach -- kind of a small, boxy heated bus on tracks that were first used 50 years ago.

    CNN: Taking the kids: A winter trek in Yellowstone

  • 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

  • If they were branches of a tree weighed down with snow, they would be torn from the trunk in the first breeze.

    ECONOMIST: AN ENGINEERING MYSTERY

  • First settled in the 1860s, by pioneers crossing the snow-capped Cascade Mountains, the county today reflects a modern version of that rugged independence.

    CNN: The Place That Picks Winners

  • Residents of a remote Exmoor village, cut off by snow, claim they are "always the first to suffer" when it comes to the council's gritting service.

    BBC: Parracombe in 1978

  • First of all, we just got five feet of snow in Washington and so everybody is like -- a lot of the people who are opponents of climate change, they say, see, look at that, there's all this snow on the ground, this doesn't mean anything.

    WHITEHOUSE: Help for Homeowners in the Hardest Hit States

  • The state enforced its first travel ban on roads since the Blizzard of '78, a ferocious storm that dropped 27 inches of snow, packed hurricane-force winds and claimed dozens of lives.

    WSJ: A state-by-state look at the Northeast snowstorm

  • Almost everyone leaps at the chance to go ashore at our first stop, King George Island, to climb a windswept 1, 000-foot incline whose hard crust of snow cracks on contact, sinking you to your knees every other step.

    FORBES: Go with the Floe

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