CNN Daily News 2009.1.2. (1/4)

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The pacific north west slam by one storm after another last month is getting hit again.
This one could dump as much as 18 inches of new snow in cascades.
Two main east-west mountain pathes in Washington are still close for fear of avalanches.
Provinces of Oregon are getting more of the rain and that is causing alot of flooding.
Portions of several state high ways have now been close and flood warnings are out.

Well, this one will give you goose bumps.
Jumping into lakes or oceans half naked in freezing temperature.
might not be everybody's idea bringing in the new year.
But this so called "Polar Plunges" have become traditions for many people across the counry .
cuz other just call him crazy.
but one jumper and a man says it makes him warm inside because his event raises money for charity and it is a way of giving back to the community.

and another icy adventure.
each year, a group of guys in Defiance Ohio go water skiing on the freezing Maumes River
yesterday the temperature twenty degrees
the water was so cold, the boat had to run through the water to break out the ice for the skiers.
after about ten minutes and two wipes, the skiers had enough.

From greenbay wisconsin, now
tale of ice fishing and ones that almost got away, eight people stranded on huge chunks of water that were cut lose by a passing barge.

do you feel a little silly now?
I will when I see myself on television.
this is probably the most complex, difficult ice rescues that we have performed in quite some time.
whenever you have multiple groups, spending miles of a shore line, that's when you need additional resources
the ice condition really deteriorated very quickly
well, not all the stranded people were fishing some of them were joy-riding on snow mobiles and others were simply out taking a wallk.
all said that  they were surprised to see that they were surrounded by open water.

- goose bumps
If you get goose bumps, the hairs on your skin stand up so that it is covered with tiny bumps. You get goose bumps when you are cold, frightened, or excited.
- plunge
If something or someone plunges in a particular direction, especially into water, they fall, rush, or throw themselves in that direction.
At least 50 people died when a bus plunged into a river
-strand
If you are stranded, you are prevented from leaving a place, for example because of bad weather.
The climbers had been stranded by a storm.
-haunted
A haunted building or other place is one where a ghost regularly appears.
Tracy said the cabin was haunted.