It was world news when three big snowstorms hit in the winter of 2009-10.
"We get high winds and we get big snowstorms, but they're not often combined, " Boyett said.
"We get high winds and we get big snowstorms, but they're not often combined, " Boyett told CNN's iReport.
Those road trips to New York's north country traveling in a van through blinding snowstorms seem a lifetime ago.
In December, 27 people died when an An-72 military plane crashed near the southern city of Shymkent during violent snowstorms.
People who live in areas frequently hit by hurricanes, snowstorms and other weather-related natural disasters often know how to proceed.
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Like satellite dishes, they had to be aligned by expert technicians, and could be knocked off target by snowstorms or wind.
If record-low temperatures, snowstorms and blizzards are getting you down, why not rejuvenate for a long weekend of sun, sand and eye-popping natural beauty?
Snowstorms of this magnitude are very rare for this late in April.
More than 52, 000 flights were canceled last winter season because of heavy snowstorms, costing the airline industry hundreds of millions of dollars.
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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.
While concrete events such as typhoons and snowstorms are faithfully recorded, less remarkable events are not, and there's little idea of gradual trends.
In Bulgaria , dozens of towns and villages remained cut off after the country was hit by the most severe snowstorms in decades.
The storm, which began in Montana before moving east, follows a series of heavy winter snowstorms that have dropped double-digit snowfalls in the Midwest.
Some of that poor performance was due to terrible weather in the Northeast where early snowstorms may have kept people out of the theaters.
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Hurricane Irene and severe snowstorms in January and October hurt performance.
That comes on top of two disaster declarations previously in his administration -- one in 2009 and one in 2010, involving snowstorms and other severe weather.
Even after adjusting for the 48, 000 temporary Census workers hired and a rebound effect from the February snowstorms, this number suggests an increase in underlying payroll employment.
Historic snowstorms struck Lisbon, Portugal in 1665, 1744 and 1886.
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In New England, it could prove to be among the top 10 snowstorms in history, and perhaps even break Boston's record of 27.6 inches, set in 2003, forecasters said.
Typically balmy southeastern China wasn't expecting snowstorms this January.
Snowstorms on the US east coast and Christmas Eve falling on Friday - one of the main evenings for movie-going in North America - did not help box office performance, analysts say.
When developing the Caledonia three years later, developers incorporated a separate building entrance for dogs that opened into a grooming facility, so pets could dry or wash off after snowstorms or muddy days.
Even in the wake of Hurricane Sandy and various cross-country snowstorms of recent months, the Federal Emergency Management Agency would likely need to endure deep cutbacks if the sequester goes forward as planned.
The first Marine detachment sent to Camp Sendai, which lies just over 80 kilometers 50 miles north of the radiation-spewing power plants, came unprepared for the snowstorms, lacking standard-issue winter parkas and insulated boots.
Just think back to February 2011 when icy conditions in North America led to the grounding of about 20, 000 flights, according to FlightAware.com, or December 2010, when snowstorms in Europe and the US led to about 8, 000 flight cancellations.
Which brings us to the second reason we don't bite the bullet and snow-proof our infrastructure: We think of snowstorms as emergencies that inevitably bring with them power outages and snow days, so we don't demand a snow-proof infrastructure.
In the late 1970s, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied six major snowstorms in Massachusetts (including the record-setting Blizzard of '78), and found that heart disease-related deaths rose by 22 percent in the week following a storm.
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The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Delaware and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe winter storms and snowstorms during the period of February 5-11, 2010.
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Federal funding is available to State and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by the severe winter storms and snowstorms in Kent, New Castle, and Sussex Counties.
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