Snow Drifts

People in the US are reeling under biting cold temperatures as a brutal winter storm brought misery to millions of Americans, with weather-related deaths rising to at least 32.

A late-winter blizzard pounded US Rocky Mountain and Plains states on Wednesday, unleashing a "bomb cyclone" of high winds and drifting snow that stranded motorists, cancelled airline flights and forced government offices, schools and businesses to close.

A shroud of bone-chilling arctic air covered the US East Coast and Midwest on Saturday, creating dangerous conditions as tens of millions of people struggled to clean up from a blizzard that dumped deep, drifting snow in many areas earlier this week.

By human standards, a descent onto Venus mirrors a fall through different circles of hell. As visitors approach, they would first pass through a thick haze of sulfuric acid. Further below are heavy metal snows that drift over Venusian mountain peaks. Finally, upon touching down, the average surface temperatures -- ranging from 800 to 900 degrees Fa...

Don Smith saw the boots first, just the toes, peeking out from a drift of snow along the side of the empty road. He brought his car to a stop, clambered out into the early morning chill and peered through the half-light, searching for a sign of his son.

Roofs creaked and collapsed and homeowners toiled to clear waist-high snow drifts atop their houses on Thursday as another storm continued to bury Buffalo and western New York state, which remained paralyzed by the historic snowfall.

People in the US are reeling under biting cold temperatures as a brutal winter storm brought misery to millions of Americans, with weather-related deaths rising to at least 32.

A late-winter blizzard pounded US Rocky Mountain and Plains states on Wednesday, unleashing a "bomb cyclone" of high winds and drifting snow that stranded motorists, cancelled airline flights and forced government offices, schools and businesses to close.

A shroud of bone-chilling arctic air covered the US East Coast and Midwest on Saturday, creating dangerous conditions as tens of millions of people struggled to clean up from a blizzard that dumped deep, drifting snow in many areas earlier this week.

By human standards, a descent onto Venus mirrors a fall through different circles of hell. As visitors approach, they would first pass through a thick haze of sulfuric acid. Further below are heavy metal snows that drift over Venusian mountain peaks. Finally, upon touching down, the average surface temperatures -- ranging from 800 to 900 degrees Fa...

Don Smith saw the boots first, just the toes, peeking out from a drift of snow along the side of the empty road. He brought his car to a stop, clambered out into the early morning chill and peered through the half-light, searching for a sign of his son.

Roofs creaked and collapsed and homeowners toiled to clear waist-high snow drifts atop their houses on Thursday as another storm continued to bury Buffalo and western New York state, which remained paralyzed by the historic snowfall.