71.   Damage to roads, bridges and tunnels have snarled traffic in much of the affected region.

72.   Electricity was restored as a rainstorm lashed Tehran, snarling traffic, before turning into snow.

73.   Elsewhere throughout Northern Ireland groups of Orangemen blocked more than two dozen roads, questioning drivers and snarling traffic for hours.

74.   Farther west, heavy snow fell during the night in southern Montana, shredding trees, snapping power lines and snarling traffic.

75.   Few drivers managed to get to the square as traffic was snarled on its outskirts by protesting municipal workers driving a convoy of garbage trucks to town hall.

76.   Firefighters and Red Cross ambulances rushed to the scene, snarling traffic for hours.

77.   Flooded streets snarled urban traffic and stalled cars, and some traffic accidents were blamed on rain-slippery pavement.

78.   Half a million civil servants walked off the job Thursday, snarling traffic, shutting schools and post offices, and cutting back hospital services to emergency cases only.

79.   Heavy snowfall on Monday snarled traffic across southeastern Bulgaria, leading police to close two main roads to neighboring Turkey and Greece.

80.   Heavy wind and snow lashed the French Alps on Saturday while a large avalanche buried ski shelters, authorities searched for eight missing skiers and road closures snarled traffic.