1.   Then, though the storm continued to pound us, the airport opened a runway for small craft only.

2.   A major winter storm will continue to affect much of the Northeast on Wednesday.

3.   A potent storm will continue to strengthen as it moves northeast toward the northern Mississippi Valley.

4.   By late Sunday afternoon, meteorologists were predicting that the storm would continue to dissipate by the time it made landfall Monday.

5.   Farther east, storms will continue to soak the Southeast, especially near the Atlantic Seaboard.

6.   Even as the storm continued losing strength, it downed trees, knocked out power and spawned small tornadoes in Virginia early Saturday morning that injured nine people.

7.   Forecasters worried that the storm would continue building as it moved across the warm Gulf Stream waters off the Florida coast.

8.   Forecasters at Weather Services Corp. said the storm continued the pattern set by an exceptionally wild winter, a cold summer, and an already rainy fall.

9.   If the storm continues to move slowly northeastward, however, the threat for heavy snow will spread into southern New England on Wednesday night.

10.   Meanwhile, the storm continued its path Saturday through the Gulf of Mexico, gathering strength as it once more headed toward land.