Instructions: Read the following passage and draw a content map to analyze the cause-and-effect pattern.
In 1888, a massive blizzard gave new
meaning to the term “severe weather.” The storm stretched from Maine southward
to Washington, D.C., and from New York westward to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It
dumped twenty-one inches of snow on New York City. Seventy-mile-per-hour wind
gusts drifted the snow twenty feet high, leaving people stranded in elevated
trains and office buildings. In Connecticut, between forty and fifty inches of
snow fell in one day. Drifts buried houses. From the Chesapeake Bay to Nantucket,
two hundred ships were either sunk or damaged. Four hundred people died before the
storm ended.
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