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Heavy snow and ice brought down power lines in Kintyre on Friday, which blacked out a huge area, including Arran, over the weekend.
BBC: Scotland
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In Providence, where the drifts were 5 feet high and telephone lines encrusted with ice and snow drooped under the weight, Jason Harrison labored for nearly three hours to clear his blocked driveway and front walk and still had more work to do.
NPR: The Big Dig-Out: New England, NY Slammed With Snow
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Long ago, in the days before passenger ships featured climbing walls, ice rinks, on-board zip lines and nonstop gastronomic gorging sessions, stately ocean liners plied the transatlantic route between London and New York.
FORBES: Captain Bernanke At The Helm Of The QE2 Hopes To Avoid A Titanic Outcome