European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday february 12, 1994 the stars and strikes 5 Rodney Lee squirts some de icer on his Windshield while sitting at a stoplight thursday in an icy Lynchburg a. East South keep skating As rest of nation Shivers by Aaron Watson the associated press freezing rain wind whipped Snow and numbing old from the Gulf coast to new England on Friday sent cars spinning into ditches shut schools and offices and knocked out Power to thousands. We had a three car pileup right Here in our parking lot said Edward Roberts a clerk at a truck Stop in ice coated Shelby county by. It s wild. You re better off with a pair of skates than s absolutely no traction at the mixture of freezing rain and sleet continue to fall in much of the South on Friday morning. Snow falling at the rate of 1 Inch an hour snarled Rush hour traffic in the new York Region where up to a foot of Snow was forecast to go on top of the 9inches that fell tuesday and wednesday. This is not a Strong storm looking at the weather map but it has got a lot of moisture with it said Tom Mazza National weather meteorologist at Pomona Atlantic City . In Washington the Federal government was closed Friday because of the storm with Only Essen tial personnel told to report. The Snow and freezing rain in the East were the latest in a series of storms that have wreaked havoc on the Eastern half of the nation this Winter. Maryland s state Highway administration said that enough Salt was on hand to handle another storm but that the Supply was dwindling. What we re concerned about is that we might not make it through the weekend spokesman John heal said. Northwestern Alabama got its worst ice storm in20 years snapping tree limbs and Power lines like toothpicks thursday. I be been afraid before in this line of work but have never been As afraid As i was today said Flor ence police chief Rick Thompson. You can t control limbs falling out of the the National guard was called in Alabama and a Kansas mostly to help Clear roads of broken branches. The ice meant treacherous highways and hundreds of wrecks. In Kentucky Lexington police said 33 wrecks were reported in less than two hours thursday night. In Irving Texas courier Glyn Reed said thursday that he saw a 30-car pileup an ambulance crash and a police car spinning in circles. I can t even believe we re out Here he said. I tried to talk our Boss into giving us Hazard the storms disrupted electrical service for hundreds of thousands of customers from Texas to Maryland. The week s total of weather related death reached at least 23 thursday As an air ambulance crashed on Takeoff in freezing rain near san Anto Nio International Airport killing two people and critically injuring a third. In Al Dorado ark., a Man was electrocuted when Power line fell on him As he tried to push his car out of a ditch. And in new Orleans at least 12 people were injured thursday when a tugboat on the fog shrouded Mississippi River collided with a commuter ferry. Four inches of rain fell wednesday and thursday in Central West Virginia bringing the worst flooding in nearly a decade. At Philippi the Tygart Valley River was Back below flood stage Friday morning after forcing 200 people from their Homes. But More rain was falling in the state. Inclement weather was not limited to the East. Fast moving storm in Northern California spawned a Tornado that damaged 30 Homes and a Church Introville on thursday. No injuries were reported. Elsewhere the Mercury plummeted. More than half dozen record lows for the Date were broken or tied thursday. In Marquette mich., it hit minus 27,9 degrees lower than the 1964 record for the Date. Across much of the South the cold was especially shocking because it had been unusually warm the Day before. I be never seen it change this fast sgt. Ralph Williamson of the Elizabeth City n.c., police department said thursday. Yesterday i was out there swinging a Golf club and drinking a Beer and today i m putting logs on the iranians rally on anniversary of revolution Nicosia. Cyprus a iranian in Ivr or tithe hundreds of thousands my Titan or i and Square chanting death to Amer a " n Fritt. I maxing 10 Days of celebrations mar Var n it i my Ersary of the islamic Revou Icin. Women veiled in traditional pc iambic in it disabled veterans of the a #fm3 Wir the Fritz was among the throng that began if. R it y Iii rat Dawn said Tehran radio which vis Mumi Ursitz is. Nicosia. The wide presence of the pen Pic Ham is Disir Sunj that this islamic nation is net Pra Parai to ties affecting it despite the negative Imi whispers of the enemies president Hashemi in told the crowd at mid morning. As a Sfanjani spoke the crowd screamed of intr i America the motto of the revolution. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini the late i the revolution returned to ran on Fatir. A i a. For arc 14 years of exile to oust the pro american i Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Trie Shah ment collapsed 10 Days later. At 3 30 p.m., the hour that the hah j a Tell helicopters showered the Niden in Cit. Liar rim Khomeini just outside Tehran with it West. Titi Stout run islamic Republic news Agency Ranf re a tidied of cancer in june 1989. In his address a Sfanjani said the
