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The North American Ice Storm of 1998 (also known as the Great Ice Storm of 1998 or the January Ice Storm) was a massive combination of five smaller successive ice storms in January 1998 that struck a relatively narrow swath of land from eastern Ontario to southern Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in Canada, and bordering areas from northern New York to central Maine in the United States.
In 1947, during a blizzard in Saskatchewan, the company received positive press coverage when army snowmobiles resupplied isolated radio communication towers. [ 10 ] In 1948, the Government of Quebec passed a law requiring all roads to be cleared of snow; Bombardier's sales fell by nearly half in one year.
2009 North American Christmas blizzard; February 5–6, 2010 North American blizzard; February 25–27, 2010 North American blizzard; December 2010 North American blizzard; January 25–27, 2011 North American blizzard; 2011 Groundhog Day blizzard; Late December 2012 North American storm complex; February 2013 North American blizzard
The Blizzard of 1996 is one of them. ... News photos showed city workers in Philadelphia using dump trucks to unload massive snow piles over the side of a bridge and into the Schuylkill River ...
FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2011 file photo, hundreds of cars are seen stranded on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago after a winter blizzard of historic proportions wobbled an otherwise snow-tough Chicago.
Subsequent storm systems lashed the city over the next three days, with January 27 and 28 each having several hours of blizzard conditions (in Canada defined as visibility of 400 metres [0.25 mi] or less), and in total, dropping 27.5 centimetres (10.8 in) snowfall. [52] January 28 and 29 saw 110 traffic accidents in Sault St. Marie. [54]
The record snowfall may have been a contributing factor for a deadly mudslide in the town of Saint-Jean-Vianney in May 1971 when heavy rains combined with already saturated grounds because of heavy melting snow formed a large sinkhole of about 600 metres (660 yards) wide and 30 metres (98.4 feet) deep. Thirty-one people were killed by the mudslide.
Road and utility crews faced the task on Monday of digging out and restoring some normalcy around Buffalo, New York, where a blizzard considered the area's worst in 45 years buried snow plows ...