Hours before the event, the prince met with injured soldiers at an event at the British Embassy in Washington.

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In Texas, where Amarillo saw 19 inches of snow Monday, fierce winds whipped snow into whiteout conditions that left truck driver and CNN iReporter Phillip Prince -- carrying a load of frozen pizzas -- stranded on Interstate 40 near Groom for nine hours.

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After like 2 hours, my grandmother came into the bathroom and proceeded to tell me this story about a prince covered in dirt that could only travel via soap bubbles and how he stayed in the bath too long and ended up washing away before he could get the princess.

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