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