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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 ...
The North American blizzard of 1996 was a severe nor'easter that paralyzed the United States East Coast with up to 4 feet (1.2 m) of wind-driven snow from January 6 to January 8, 1996. The City University of New York reported that the storm "dropped 20 inches of snow, had wind gusts of 50 mph and snow drifts up to 8 feet high."
On 20 January 1996, as a result of rising flood waters from the North American blizzard of 1996, the Walnut Street bridge lost two of its seven western spans when high floodwaters and a large ice floe lifted the spans off their foundations and swept them down the river. A third span was damaged and later collapsed into the river.
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It's been a few years since central Pennsylvania has seen a whopping snowfall. Some might remember the Blizzard of 1996, when more than two feet of snow fell, closing businesses for a week and ...
The Blizzard of 1996 is one of them. It's one of the defining winter storms of the 20th century and is still a record-holder to this date for several cities. ... 1996. (AP Photo/Nanine ...
Blizzard of 1996. Impact: Long-lasting snow, gusting wind. Casualties: 60 deaths. This storm wasn’t reserved for the coast. Up to three feet of snow dropped from Pennsylvania to Ohio and from ...
In 2001, Bolaris drew major criticism after predicting a major blizzard, which he dubbed the "storm of the century" would hit Philadelphia. Leading up to the storm, Bolaris' segments featured custom theme music and he often compared the emerging storm to the North American blizzard of 1996 . [ 8 ]