Visitors should wear warm clothes and winter boots to keep from slipping on the frozen floors.

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"Even clad in full winter gear, with ice-axes, winter boots and full waterproof body cover, it was a struggle, " said Mr Rodwell.

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On top of that is a thick wool sock, winter boots that are three sizes to large for me, and a waterproof overboot.

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Sure, Aunt Sue was planning on getting a new crock pot anyway and your brother is in desperate need of new winter boots.

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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.

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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.

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The same smell of winter clothing that never really dried out, of boots soaked through to dirty socks, unwashed feet.

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In the cozy apartments of the Upper East Side, residents were polishing off boots, waxing in ski equipment, and dusting off winter gear.

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For the past 10 years, he's the guy you've seen on the sidewalk, with the great body, strumming his guitar and singing, dressed in a cowboy hat, cowboy boots and underwear -- and nothing else, even in the dead of winter.

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