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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Frigid air, snow, worry ranchers in Plains, South - Yahoo! News

READ MORE: Frigid air, snow, worry ranchers in Plains, South - Yahoo! News: "Forecasters predicted lows of minus 11 degrees in northwest Arkansas and minus 10 degrees in parts of Oklahoma. But by early morning, temperatures had dipped to minus 18 in Fayetteville and to minus 27 in Bartlesville, Okla., according to the National Weather Service.
In an area of the nation unaccustomed to such snow and subzero temperatures, those numbers had cattlemen such as Paul Marinoni crossing their fingers that pregnant cows won't give birth during the coldest hours. The newborns could stick to the ground, much like tongues on a flagpole, and die, Marinoni said.
'How do you prevent it?' Marinoni, 70, said from his farm outside Fayetteville. 'You can't.'"

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