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The Blizzard of '78 formed on Sunday, February 5, 1978 and broke up on February 7. [3] The storm was initially known as "Storm Larry" in Connecticut, following the local convention promoted by the Travelers Weather Service on television and radio stations there. [4] Snow fell mostly from Monday morning, February 6 to the evening of Tuesday ...
Upper section of antenna broke loose and destroyed guy wires due to ice storm WAND and WJJY used the same RCA UHF antennas, mfg in 1969. TV channel 17 (488-494 MHz) Collapsed Easter Sunday. Nebraska Education Tower, Angora: February 1978: Guyed steel lattice mast 457 Ice Zehlendorf bei Oranienburg, East Germany May 21, 1978: Guyed steel lattice ...
The cooperative observer station at the Bennetts Bridge power plant, near Altmar, New York, established an official all-time New York State monthly snowfall record with 192 inches (16.0 ft; 4.9 m) of snowfall in January 1978. [16] Long-term New York weather stations that established all-time monthly snowfall records in January 1978 include:
A four-day ice storm from November 26-29, 1921 battered central Massachusetts. [1] 1940s ... Twin North Carolina Ice Storms of January 12–13 and 19-20, 1978 [4]
The storm that covered much of Oregon in ice this January led to approximately $165 million in economic losses, a peak of 238,900 power outages and 17 deaths statewide, according to a report ...
A power line fell on a parked car in northeast Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday, killing three people and injuring a baby during an ice storm that turned roads and mountain highways treacherous in ...
At the peak of the storm, 100,000 homes and businesses were without power, and 4,000 homes were without heat, some for as long as 24 hours. Emergency shelters opened in Foster, Rhode Island and Scituate, Rhode Island. There was some street and cellar flooding. Total damage in Rhode Island was estimated at more than $500,000 USD in 1973 dollars.
CANTON, N.Y. (AP) - A winter storm bringing ice and whipping winds to upstate New York and northern Vermont knocked out power to thousands of customers as officials urged motorists to avoid ...