1.   Tragically his promising career was cut short when he died in a plane crash during a freak snowstorm.

2.   A freak spring snowstorm trapped several dozen illegal immigrants in wilderness mountain terrain east of San Diego overnight, leaving at least seven people dead.

3.   Here, the trees took a beating from a freak snowstorm last autumn, before the leaves had a chance to fall.

4.   In April, a freak snowstorm in the mountains east of San Diego killed eight immigrants.

5.   It was not a freak spring snowstorm, a heat wave or torrential rains.

6.   The freak snowstorm that blanketed eastern Colorado this weekend moved eastward on Sunday as snow fell from eastern Kansas through Missouri and Iowa and into Wisconsin and eastern Michigan.

7.   Alpine police on Tuesday began recovering the bodies of at least four mountain climbers killed in a freak summer snowstorm, and rescuers saved survivors.

8.   Four other cavers were trapped with the two after heavy rains and a freak summer snowstorm flooded the grotto.

9.   Heavy rain and snow hindered efforts to rescue thousands of Hindus trapped during a freak snowstorm on their annual pilgrimage to an ancient Himalayan cave.

10.   Heavy rains and a freak summer snowstorm flooded the cave, where the explorers had been pinned down since Saturday.