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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- The Upper Michigan Blizzard of 1938
NASA ^ | January 22, 2014 | (see photo credit)

Posted on 01/24/2014 3:48:01 AM PST by SunkenCiv

Explanation: Yes, but can your blizzard do this? In Upper Michigan's Storm of the Century in 1938, some snow drifts reached the level of utility poles. Nearly a meter of new and unexpected snow fell over two days in a storm that started 76 years ago tomorrow. As snow fell and gale-force winds piled snow to surreal heights; many roads became not only impassable but unplowable; people became stranded; cars, school buses and a train became mired; and even a dangerous fire raged. Fortunately only two people were killed, although some students were forced to spend several consecutive days at school. The above image was taken by a local resident soon after the storm. Although all of this snow eventually melted, repeated snow storms like this help build lasting glaciers in snowy regions of our planet Earth.

January 22, 2014

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; astronomy; science
[Credit: Bill Brinkman; Courtesy: Paula Rocco]

1 posted on 01/24/2014 3:48:01 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: cripplecreek; brytlea; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; married21; steelyourfaith; Mmogamer; ...
The Big One

2 posted on 01/24/2014 3:48:38 AM PST by SunkenCiv (;http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Wow, good thing Al Gore came along and invented global warming! /s


3 posted on 01/24/2014 3:54:54 AM PST by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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To: SunkenCiv

I personally think we’re headed for a decade of nasty winters.

Michigan Blizzard of 78

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezBZd4OQOXg


4 posted on 01/24/2014 3:59:46 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek
I remember one like that in Boston.

Calculating by what I think my age was at the time, it was ptobably '56 or '57 ... I'll go look

5 posted on 01/24/2014 4:53:09 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: cripplecreek
Close ... it was '58
6 posted on 01/24/2014 5:00:10 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: knarf

What’s interesting to me is that the people got out there and helped to take care of themselves and each other even as recently as 78.


7 posted on 01/24/2014 5:15:17 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek
Some of those Michigan photo's showed guys in jeans and a jacket .. pushing a car with their waist/bellies exposed ... hardly dressed for the task at hand, yet ...

I wouldn't be surprised if it was all beer and laughter fueled.

I remember when I was young/tough and stupid .... sighhhh ...

8 posted on 01/24/2014 5:29:33 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: SunkenCiv
"all of this snow eventually melted"

Really! I could have sworn that the UP was permanently glaciated, that is, until Catastrophic Global Warming turned it into a ghetto.

9 posted on 01/24/2014 5:33:07 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To: LearsFool

We’ve had some wicked Nor’easters over the past decades in the mid-Atlantics. I recall one in the 90’s that dumped over two feet of snow in about a day. There were some very cold winters in the 80’s.

Anyone over the age of 40 living in the snow belt can recall big snow storms and winters like we’re having now.

Since the late 90’s, though, winters have been relatively mild with no killer storms in the mid-Atlantic states. Until now.


10 posted on 01/24/2014 5:41:29 AM PST by randita
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To: knarf

Yeah I used to be out and around in all kinds of weather but at 50 I’m starting to run a little cooler.

I used to work on the farm and still went ice fishing or bunny hunting pretty much every day after work.


11 posted on 01/24/2014 5:48:02 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: SunkenCiv

My in-laws are from that part of the world. Even in a good year you often have to tunnel your way out of your house.


12 posted on 01/24/2014 6:11:11 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SunkenCiv

1938 also happened to be the worst hurricane to hit New England since 1699. hmmmmmm...global warming or global cooling? </sarc>


13 posted on 01/24/2014 6:27:46 AM PST by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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