1. BLIZZARD 1996 By. David Kusters

2. WEATHER FORECAST 1/7/96 Morning They expected about 2 feet of snow and winds of about 20-25mph. Afternoon They expected still around 2 feet of snow but now winds of 30-35mph. Evening The same conditions as the afternoon.

3. WEATHER FORECAST 1/8/96 Morning 18-30 inches of snow and winds of 15-25mph. Afternoon A lot of snow blowing around, snow showers, flurries, and winds of 15-25mph. Evening A lot of snow blowing around, snow showers, flurries and winds of 15-25mph.

4. WEATHER IN PHILEDELPHIA It was so bad the mayor declared a state emergency and only police and other emergency workers were allowed to leave their homes. It took the snow plows 3 days to get all the roads cleared. Eventually they ran out of room to put the snow and dumped it into Schullkyl and Delaware rives. Which effected the river flow. Then the temperatures sharply rose creatingfloods. They used boats to travel.

5. WEATHER IN BUCKS COUNTY The Bucks County are was hit with about 20-30 inches of snow from January 7th to January 8th 1996. A record of 20 inches fell in one day. All the cars in the are were covered. People couldn’t leave their houses for 3 days.

6. FACTS FROM PHILLY Philadelphia suffered the most deaths 80 of the 154. Barns in Philadelphia collapsed all over from the snow. To protect the people supermarkets across Philadelphia closed because they were afraid of the flat roofs collapsing.

7. OTHER FACTS The snow started to fall in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 1996. It ended in Maine. It killed 154 people and caused $1 billion worth of damage. Began as cold air from Canada pushed down and collided with relatively warm winds from the Gulf of Mexico. The weather fronts caused a terrible combination of snow and wind. Snow began to fall in the District of Columbia about 9 p.m.; 12 inches fell over the course of the next 24 hours. In Lynchburg, Virginia.

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