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    Rental cars are buried deep in snow in an auxiliary lot at Dulles International Airport on Feb. 8, 2010, days after a record snowstorm hit Washington, D.C.

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    People continue to dig out their cars along 72nd Street in New York Dec. 27, 2010, in the wake of a powerful East Coast blizzard.

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    On Third Street in downtown Frederick, Md., tree limbs and power lines are downed by heavy snow as the blizzard of 2010 dumped more than 2 feet of snow in the area.

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    A city bus passes a skier on Michigan Avenue during a snowstorm in Chicago, Ill., on Feb. 2, 2011. The blizzard dumped more than 20 inches of snow on the city, making it the third largest snowfall recorded in the Chicago's history. 

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    A United Airlines aircraft sits with its windshield covered with snow and ice while parked at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport in near-whiteout conditions Dec. 11, 2000.

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    Hundreds of cars are seen stranded on Lake Shore Drive on Feb. 2, 2011, in Chicago after a winter blizzard of historic proportions trapped drivers for up to 12 hours overnight on the city's lakeshore thoroughfare. 

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    David Karnovsky, general counsel for the New York City Department of City Planning, cross country skis down West 73rd Street towards Central Park on Dec. 27, 2010, in New York City.

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    A commuter waits under heat lamps on an elevated train track during a blizzard on Feb. 2, 2011, in Chicago.

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    Colgate University football players break from the huddle under blizzard-like conditions during a playoff game in Hamilton, N.Y., Nov. 29, 2003.

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    As a another winter blizzard hits the nation's capital, people make their way through downtown streets in whiteout conditions Feb. 10, 2010, in Washington.

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    People walk past Radio City Music Hall in New York City during December 2010's Snowpocalypse.

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    Marine Lt. Col. Chester McMillon works to dig a car out of the snow along Route 15 after a blizzard in York Springs, Pa., Feb. 11, 2010.

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    A truck navigates through the snow-covered street as a local resident digs her car out of the snow on Detroit Street in Denver, Colo., March, 19, 2003.

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    A flag pokes above the snow in around mounds of covered grave markers in Veterans Memorial Field in East Hartford, Conn., after another winter storm, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011.

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    A man had to apply brute force to get his snow blower through a pile of snow while tunneling through a sidewalk he was clearing in East Hartford, Conn. on January 27, 2011. 

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    A couple walks their dog during a blizzard Feb. 10, 2010, in Washington, D.C.