The Nation - News from Jan. 4, 1985
A freak snowstorm struck South Texas, causing schools and some businesses to close and sending cars skidding into each other and into ditches. The snowstorm was blamed for at least four deaths and hundreds of traffic accidents as it marched across the state and northeastward into Louisiana and Mississippi. Houston school officials kept 177,000 students home.
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