The Nation - News from Jan. 30, 1986

Snow fell across the eastern half of the nation, snarling traffic from Michigan to the nation’s capital, as bitter cold air bolstered by wind gusts 20 to 40 m.p.h. blew into the Mississippi Valley. A record-setting Southern cold wave spared Florida’s $2.4-billion citrus crop, but growers said freezing temperatures slightly damaged the state’s vegetable crop. Cold, wind and snow since Sunday have been blamed for at least 10 deaths nationwide, including one each in Georgia, Tennessee and Pennsylvania, two in Florida and North Carolina and three in New Jersey.