The Nation - News from Jan. 9, 1986

A snowstorm socked parts of Texas with a seven-inch fall in Del Rio on the Mexican border. Winds up to 65 m.p.h. battered Montana, while gusts also swept over northeastern Florida and from St. Simons Island, Ga., to Daytona Beach, Fla. In Del Rio, “everything is closed,” a sheriff’s clerk said. The city is full of visitors who went south to escape the frigid winter. Scattered snow showers were reported over the Great Lakes, northern Rockies and the northern Plateau.