One Quarter Century Ago This Week...
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Was the great Rochester Ice Storm. Many of us lived through it. 3 March 1991.
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/05/nyregion/an-ice-storm-paralyzes-western-and-northern-new-york.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/17/nyregion/after-rochester-ice-storm-a-scarred-countryside.html
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Holy crow I remember that well. We had no power for over 2 weeks (VERY rural).
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It has its own Facebook page!
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I see see if I can find the snow storm of 97 in Omaha. The snow was so heavy that trees all over the city had limbs broken off and killed a lot too.
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@art_of_shred and I were out of school for TWO WEEKS from that storm. And that's western NY where snow never qualifies for a day off from school. That's a school that let students die in bad weather (three or four in a single day, once) while trying to get to school rather than close.
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@Dashrender said:
I see see if I can find the snow storm of 97 in Omaha. The snow was so heavy that trees all over the city had limbs broken off and killed a lot too.
We lost 1/3rd of all trees. Not branches, the whole trees came down. It was devastating to the forests of the area. It's been 25 years and the woods where I am from is only starting to recover. It's visibly a very different place than it was in my childhood with a different tree ration and everything.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
I see see if I can find the snow storm of 97 in Omaha. The snow was so heavy that trees all over the city had limbs broken off and killed a lot too.
We lost 1/3rd of all trees. Not branches, the whole trees came down. It was devastating to the forests of the area. It's been 25 years and the woods where I am from is only starting to recover. It's visibly a very different place than it was in my childhood with a different tree ration and everything.
I'm not sure how many we lost, I'm sure less than 1/3, but it was pretty devastating around here as well.
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3rd March 1991 eh...?
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I lived through it, I was just a kid, and we had something like 6 days off from school.
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We were living in Syracuse at the time... but I was only 2 years old.
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@coliver said:
We were living in Syracuse at the time... but I was only 2 years old.
Rub it in dude....
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@Minion-Queen said:
@coliver said:
We were living in Syracuse at the time... but I was only 2 years old.
Rub it in dude....
I was but a foetus.
