Snow cuts off U.S. cities
NZPA-Reuter Chicago The battered American Mid-West yesterday counted the cost in billions of dollars of a week-end blizzard that virtually shut, down dozens of cities and towns with some of the heaviest snowfalls this century. Many factories had lost two days of production and offices had been almost at a standstill because workers could not get to their jobs.
Farmers had been unable to move their produce because most country roads were blocked by up to a metre of snow. The Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Chicago estimated that the city lost about SNZ9SOM in sales on Monday and Tuesday because people could not get to work. The airlines had also been big losers with Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, the busiest in the world, closed for the whole week-end and still handling only a third of its regular flights.
President Carter has declared 22 counties in Illinois disaster areas.
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