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Arctic blast shuts down schools, trains, roads

POSTED: 1:19 p.m. EST, February 5, 2007

Story Highlights

 Schools in Ohio, Wisconsin, upstate New York cancel classes

 Temperature drops to 38 below zero in one Minnesota town

 Below-zero temperatures common across Midwest, Northeast

 Parts of upstate New York get 2 feet of snow

No wonder Joan headed south

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