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Clothing and footwear was the strongest non-food category, with winter weather encouraging people to shop for boots and seasonal clothes.

BBC: Scottish Retail Consortium: food sales boost for shops

House textiles were the best-performing category, with the cold weather leading to a boom in duvet sales.

BBC: UK retail sales in March hit by cold weather

Damage assessments Tuesday showed the tornado had winds over 200 mph at times, making it an EF5 -- the strongest category of tornadoes measured, the National Weather Service said.

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Sandy, just a category one hurricane, was so large they Weather Channel and later everyone else dubbed it Superstorm Sandy.

FORBES: One Week Later, The Cost Of Superstorm Sandy

The Weather Channel meteoroligists are still warning that the Hurricane Irene will hit Massachusestts as a category one.

FORBES: Coastal Mass Next To Batten Down For Hurricane Irene