I've been in blue blowing snow on the Canadian border and understand miserable.

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Hakura said the Turkish military wanted to conduct a surprise attack against the PKK prior to the springtime, when violent attacks tend to escalate, and when the snow in the mountainous border region leaves the fighters' footprints.

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To the north is the highest step, the majestic snow-capped mountains that mark the border with China.

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At the Colorado line the snow plough turned back, as if at a real border.

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Some of the buses that carry low income tourists and Argentine guest workers into Chile from the other side of the border stopped to let passengers out in the snow.

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On Wednesday the system left a rare thin layer of snow across the deserts of Arizona, New Mexico and Southern California -- as far south as the border with Mexico.

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