Particularly in the East, the frozen, snow-strangled U.S. last week could only echo General George S. Patton's exasperated wartime injunction to his chaplain: "Goddam it, get me some good weather!"
Not since Dec. 1 had the cities and farms east of the Mississippi seen even reasonable winter weather. Ferryboats froze in Lake Michigan. Georgia peach trees shivered in the coldest winter in 25 years. New York City, buried under 55.7 inches of snow that had fallen this season, also endured 16 days of continuously below-freezing temperatures. Last week, in a taxi driver's dream of heaven, private cars were banned in Manhattan for...
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