Remember it well lying in bed and listening to tree branches crack and fall in the dark of night.
30 yrs ago today the most costly natural disaster to strike NYS began (since surpassed). The #Rochester ice storm produced 17 straight hrs of freezing rain. Strangely, as icing started, only a winter storm watch was in effect (no ice storm warning). WHAM radio became a lifeline.pic.twitter.com/MmF2ZkNDMw
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The sights and sounds of that storm were amazing. The tree branches breaking sounded like gun fire. The transformers arcing at night causing eerie glows. And when the sun later came out, the sparkle and dazzle that belied the destruction...
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I am old.
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I will never forget that night. We lived in an apartment complex, but had some woods nearby. We could see the flashes of light as transformers blew and listening to the branches break was unreal. Fortunately our power was only out that time for less than a day.
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Remember this...the tree damage from the ice
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An epic week at the firehouse in Fairport with
@RFDBCCompton. We ran more calls in a week than we do all year and had 3 fire departments from Onondaga County running out of our station. Absolutely remarkable. -
Best week of my life!
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My Dad was without power for 2 weeks. Thankfully he had a fireplace and gas stove! I was in college at Oswego....we just had rain.
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True. Oswego/Syracuse had rain. Buffalo/Niagara had snow and sleet. But Rochester and the Genesee Valley...freezing rain resulting in ice, ice, ice.
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I remember this when I was at the University of Rochester
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