Sentence examples for paralyzing blizzard from inspiring English sources
After last week's paralyzing blizzard, which buried them in nearly two feet of snow, Ms. Roman, Ms. Frey, Mr. Moore and the rest of their block in Bellerose, Queens, learned some lessons: be prepared, even if the forecast does not seem daunting, because help may not be just around the corner.
With hundreds of flights canceled and some airlines urging people to stay home, anyone venturing to La Guardia Airport yesterday would have found a surprising thing: While fears of a paralyzing blizzard prompted airlines to cancel a majority of La Guardia's flights yesterday, the storm's tardy arrival allowed the airport's crew to keep runways clear.
It is the prerogative of a parable to dispense with many of the formal requirements of fiction -- to refer to inhabitants of Connecticut as "villagers," to call down the sort of paralyzing blizzard more likely to be found in the Carpathian Mountains and to postulate that there might be wolves about.
At least 28 flights, carrying thousands of passengers, became stranded on the tarmac at John F. Kennedy International Airport, one for close to 11 grueling hours, in the aftermath of this week's paralyzing blizzard, officials said.
The weather and the calendar conspired on Friday to give New York City the break it had been looking for since the paralyzing blizzard that ended Monday: Temperatures reached 45 degrees, and many workers had the day off in observance of New Year's Day.
Steve Hart, 40, a farmer in Langdon who helped revive the Roxy, tells of a paralyzing Christmas blizzard several years ago.
The Postal Service last shut down operations on Feb. 6, 1978, when a blizzard paralyzed the state.
But her calendar takes on an unusually singular focus during the last week of December 2010, after the city was paralyzed by a blizzard and the mayor was criticized for a slow city response.
(Blizzards paralyze the metropolis for a day now and then, but that's because we secretly want them to).
A blizzard hit most of Colorado and parts of Wyoming, paralyzing travel.
