Credit & Copyright: Bill Brinkman;
Courtesy:
Paula Rocco
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.
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