She crashed both of the couple's cars in a two-month period; by the time an ice storm hit and they were stranded without power, it was clear that something had to change.

两个月时间里她把自己和老伴的车都撞坏了；有一次遇到冰暴袭击，没有电源，让他们进退两难。

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Blizzard conditions existed in six states Wednesday and ice coated many other states after a gigantic storm billed as the worst in decades hit a large area of the country from Texas to Maine.

周三时有六个州都承受着暴雪，自十年来最严重的大风暴席卷了从德克·萨斯至缅因州的全国大范围地区后，多个州都被冰雪覆盖。

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This year has seen no such opposite of a perfect storm, yet the summer sea-ice minimum is a mere 4% bigger than that record.

而尽管并没有观测到如此不利的情况，今年海冰的极小值也仅仅比那年的记录大了4%。

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But it took a Valentine's Day ice storm and the scenes of planes stuck on the runway for more than 10 hours to give the issue traction.

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As the power companies were reconnecting the last of their customers, another ice storm arrived.

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The researchers also included projections for sea level rise in Europe that includes the effects of thermal expansion, ice melt and storm surges.

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