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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581994,00.html
South Chilled by Arctic Winds, Record Snow in East
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Subfreezing temperatures across the South have Florida farmers worried that strawberry, tomato and other crops could be destroyed, with temperatures in even usually balmy Miami only in the 50s on Tuesday.
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist signed an executive order that gives the state's Division of Emergency Management and other agencies the authority to provide growers with assistance. Throughout central and south Florida, farmers are trying to salvage millions of dollars worth of citrus and vegetable crops, spraying them in protective layers of ice and covering them in plastic.
"The problem now is that we have a weeklong freeze predicted," said Ted Campbell, executive director for the Florida Strawberry Growers Association. "It's an endurance test."
Forecasters say the Southern deep freeze will last through the weekend, likely breaking records for continuous cold temperatures in many parts of Florida and elsewhere.
The eastern U.S. was not only dealing with subfreezing temperatures, but parts of the northeastern New England states were under record snowfall. In Burlington, Vermont, a storm dumped more than 33 inches, breaking a single-storm record of nearly 30 inches set in 1969.
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