A blanket of ice has turned the cities of the US Gulf Coast white. It is for the first time that a blizzard warning has been issued for the Gulf Coast of the United States. The snowstorm was so severe that Donald Trump’s inaugural ceremony had to be moved indoors. This has happened after 40 years since Ronald Reagan became president of the USA in 1985.
The severe unprecedented snowstorm, named ‘Enzo,’ has left meteorologists and climate scientists astounded by its intensity and reach. They are describing it as a “once in a generation event” and “beyond imagination.”
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