Explanation: Yes, but can your blizzard do this? In the Upper Peninsula of 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 86 years ago this week. 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. Two people were killed and some students were forced to spend several consecutive days at school. The featured 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.
I experienced the blizzard of 1978 in my Ohio hometown. We got something like 12-14 inches of snow but the wind gusts were 50-60+ mph and some drifts got up to the second story of homes. Everything was shut down and power was off for days. I remember folks were helping others through the use of snowmobiles until the roads could get open. This storm hit the Great Lakes region so many states got walloped from this system.
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The Upper Michigan Blizzard of 1938
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