Yaaay! The long awaited Storm of the Century vid! Awesome job as always & thank you for having me on! It was a pleasure to have the chance to give you a first hand account of the storm!
As a geologist, I like how you mentioned Mount Pinatubo and how it’s eruption affected the climate and being one of the factors for this winter superstorm. Excellent job my guy. 👍🏽
People don’t understand how everything in nature is connected! The volcano of course caused this and people don’t pay enough attention to put two plus two together!
I was a junior in high school when this happened and was on a band trip for all state. Thankfully my parents decided to go to the performance because I ended up stuck in north/central Alabama in what became, essentially, a blizzard. We spent 2 days in Auburn in our cabin until we could drive back home to South Alabama. It was insane.
As was I that year. But I’m in Iowa. We missed that storm. That winter was pretty bad all around. In January we had a bad storm here and we all got trapped at another school after a basketball game. They had forecasted the storm to come after midnight. So both schools decided to continue the game. The storm came at 7:00. We kept playing because it was too late. We had a long cold night in the gym of that school and an even colder morning driving back in the buses. But the next winter was even worse. We missed so much school they scheduled Saturday school for us seniors to ensure we were done on time. Then the state waved the snow days and we didn’t have to go to Saturday school.
I’m 42 so I was in 5th grade in Pilot Mountain NC, my dad had just gotten divorced and we were living in a mobile home behind what would soon be my step mom’s parents house. We had a little kerosene heater and would occasionally go next door and sit by the fire and drink hot chocolate and play board games, no cell phones, no social media…what an amazing time, sucks to hear about all the lives lost, especially all those close by on the App Trail, but back then large snowfalls were normal that time of year, we even had another small blizzard in mid-April of that same year! So hiking that trail in March of 93 is wild!!
Super interesting point on the volcano. Had never occurred to me that volcanic eruptions could affect the weather so far away. Learned something new! Great video!
That's one thing I have never really understood. How can a volcano that erupts in Africa effect the weather in North America? I'm not using a real example, of course, but no matter where the volcano is, the weather is affected. I just don't understand why or how.
It is theorized that the black death was caused by a volcanic eruption 7 years prior to the outbreak. That eruption also kick started the Little Ice Age and also block out the sun for 2 years. This is a perfect example of the Butterfly Effect.
This was simply an incredible storm. When it hit, I lived in Raphine, Virginia, and I was very young; barely 5 years old. We were lower income at that time. We were living in a very small trailer park near White's Truck Stop. My dad worked for VDoT (Virginia Department of Transportation) as a mechanic and, when the winter weather got bad, a snow plow truck driver. VDoT played things cautiously despite the lack of confidence in the forecast, so dad ended up heading out to the nearest VDoT site (in Lexington) and they prepared the day before the storm hit. I specifically remember seeing on the TV one particular meteorologist stating his disbelief that this storm would amount to anything. I remember him saying something along the lines of "I don't get why everyone is panicking - this is only going to be a light dusting of snow." Let's just say that 'light dusting' he claimed ended up being 20-foot snow drifts that we woke up to. We couldn't exit our trailer out the main door; we had to send my brother out the window to go around and start digging the entrance to the house out. You could literally walk from the ground up to the roof of the trailer because the snow drifts were so high. My dad called us to let us know the county roads were impassible and he couldn't make it home. He ended up having to stay at VDoT site in Lexington for 3 days. When the county roads finally were cleared enough that dad could return to the entrance of our neighborhood, none of our neighborhood's roads had even been touched yet. There was no way his truck could get him the quarter mile uphill to get into our neighborhood, so he ended up parking his truck and began walking. It took him almost 45-50 minutes to get up the quarter-mile hill to our neighborhood. At the time, mom took me outside on the porch to look at the snow since I was simply fascinated with any weather phenomenon. Apparently, both my mom and I missed my dad calling out to us as he slowly worked his way through all the snow to get to us. Any time there's snow in our forecast, my family still jests with that meteorologist's comment about it only being a 'light dusting' of snow. Better watch out, could be a tiny layer of snow that barely covers the surface... or it could be sufficient snow to have an easy access ramp to your rooftop. Lol. Cheers, y'all.
I live in Botetourt County-this hit the spring of my junior year in high school. My dad worked for a local water treatment plant -essential employee. He and our neighbors got on the phone, worked who would plow what parts of our road and the main road with their personal farm tractors. (Had to access all the cattle & horse pastures). We had a couple of neighborhood potlucks and got around on farm equipment, atvs, on foot or horseback. My parents and others who worked outside the neighborhood were able to get back to work quick because of the farmers. Us kids ended up running our farms since we were out of school for awhile.
We used to make the same joke in St Louis. Best birthday present ever was a "dusting" of snow that cancelled school. 6 inches isn't usually enough to cancel school unless all the plow drivers stay home.
@@April-hl3mw Yeah, it's bad enough when we northerners get hit with a blizzard - we have shovels and a couple of pairs of snowshoes kicking around... ... but the heart breaks when we hear about sizeable snow in the South. Alabama? Georgia? South Carolina? Are you kidding me?? The AT? "Incredible" doesn't even begin to comprehend that situation...
I was in college in Arizona in 1993 so I am pretty sure I didn't even know how bad that storm was until well after the fact. This video made me think of how different life is these days where everyone has a weather app on their phone and news is considerably more worldwide. For instance, google news makes sure I know all about the 55 feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains this winter season, despite me living in Arizona. The internet & weather apps would have been life changing for those considering a trip to the Appalachians in 1993.
Wow, this brings back memories. I will never forget this as long as I live. I lived in Chattanooga, Tennessee and I was 11 years old and March 12 is my mother’s birthday. I remember waking up and we were absolutely blown away, trees were down. Everything was completely white. We couldn’t even open the front door because of how much snow was on our porch. We lost power and stayed without power for at least two weeks. We had to cook food on our gas grill and luckily our home had a fireplace in the den so we stayed down in the den for the majority of the time. We built an igloo and I mean an actual igloo that you can get in lol. Never forget it !!!!
@@Limpn00dle19kilo I was up in Cleveland Tennessee just up a bunch Chattanooga there you probably been there before you been in Chattanooga, and we absolutely got buried I lived in a town called Polk county or Benton and we were absolutely buried for 3 weeks with no power. But it was great I was 12 years old I live with my grandparents and I had an absolute blast, a dug tunnels for weeks from what it seemed like and I built a snowman that lasted till April LOL.
I remember this storm! I was just a child back then and all of NYC was blanketed in snow. It was terrifying! I remember trudging through the snow with my mother trying to get to my grandparents home. The snow was so much that it was waist deep. It was insane, especially since the winds was wild
This storm lives forever in my memory as I was only 7 years old living in Charlottesville, Virginia. We received 2 feet and I will never forget how it caught everyone off guard.
I was 10 years old living in eastern Kentucky when this storm hit. We was without power for almost 2 weeks and I remember me and my friends walking to the store in the us army hummer tracks lol the snow was up almost to my waist. It’s was a horrible storm. But at night setting by candle light playing games with my whole family is a time I cherish now.
I was 30 yo living in central NJ and remember being warned by the meteorologists about a week before it hit and by the time it was 3 days before the storm hit that this big storm was coming and it was going to be massive and to be prepared. I followed their advice and was prepared making sure I had everything I needed for over a week. I remember measuring 17" of snow and then it turned to hail which packed it down to about 14" which was followed by freezing rain packing it down even further. The winds were easily in the 60 MPH range and gusts hurricane strength. Then the cold moved in and the temperatures dropped to 10 degrees fahrenheit with the cold weather lasting a few weeks afterwards. The towns came out with their snow plows which didn't work because the ice was so thick and they had to bring out bulldozers and backhoes as everything was frozen solid. In the development I lived in I had to use a pickaxe to carve my way out of my condo carving blocks of ice and then picking them up and moving them off of the sidewalk as if I was about to build an igloo. Luckily I had 2 pickaxes and also a couple of metal garden shovels, but the pickaxes worked the best. All of the cars were frozen in and had to be carved out of the ice. All of the people pitched in and we cleared pretty much all of the sidewalks because the maintenance people couldn't get to our development. The lucky thing was that it hit on the weekend. I videotaped a lot of that storm and have it on VHS somewhere. A few days after the storm the meteorologists were calling it a "norricane".
@@jjoe2662 My husband and I live outside New Haven, CT. The ice on top of the snow was so thick we were walking on top of it. He had to get his 10 pound sledgehammer and break up the ice before we could shovel it. It’s a good thing we were in our 30’s then. We could never do that now. We were so sore we could barely move for days. It was crazy.
I lived in Ringoes New Jersey during that period yes we did have a heavy snows but it wasn't as brutal as where you live could you please tell the people where you lived
Never forget being in school, north of Pittsburgh, 13 years old, we where taken out and had a week off!!! It was awesome week of fun for kids in 3 plus feet of snow lol. The sled riding, playing, incredible time.
I was in north Florida , Perry, probably 15 miles. My lady friend and I where out at the bar partying with another couple.. The TV was turned up.. news was saying 60 MPH winds and heavy rain was coming our friends lived about 80 yards from the beach... I think that because their were some large tree and brush is what saved them Andy and his wife woke up to a 26 ft Rider truck smashing into the corner stilt..it broke one stilt... People 500 yards down the road were not lucky at all... Whole houses .. were gone... that was Keaton beach... power lines were everywhere... I'll never forget looking up that road... thanks for a great doc. I'm a subscriber now.
@@Cobalt_Dragon0716 Atlanta here, yeah, thunder snow. My Norwegian Elkhound, Grey, was at the front door barking at the thunder (and you haven't heard a dog bark 'til you've heard an elkhound). She loved thunder, but when we let her out for her bladder break, she decided she didn't have to go that bad at that time.
@@5610winston I don't remember the thunder snow, but I DO remember the roof or our fenced-in b-all court caving in (I was in a teen psych treatment center called Devereux when it struck).
I lived in Attalla,Al where we received 17 inches with drifts of many feet. The thunder and lightning began around midnight with the snow blowing straight across. We were without power for five days but the Lord got us through it.
This was a very memorable part of my childhood growing up in Georgia. Georgia gets some snow occasionally but not in feet. We got over a foot of snow where I lived in Georgia. Overnight it was dumping snow and lightening at the same time. There was thundersnow. As a kid I thought it was awesome. We were pulling plastic sleds with our 4wheeler. We got to sled for days. I fell in a snow drift up to my nips. We did not have to go to school for a while. I don't think my parents believed it was going to happen. My brother woke me up overnight and told me it was snowing. I did not believe him. My dad had a lifted 4x4 truck. He drove around town pulling people out of ditches. Glen Burns the meteorologist recently retired, I watched him for many years on Channel 2 News.
I was in my early 20’s, trapped at my parents house in PA. I was not too thrilled and I’m sure I was insufferable. Thirty years later (and both parents passed on), I’d give anything to be trapped with my parents again. That storm is mostly a good memory for me.
I was in middle school when this came through and I still remember clearly how insane it was. Also remember the snow taking forever to melt and when it finally did flooding the basement of the home we lived in at the time.
I guess it was Tuesday I got out from Atlanta to pick up lab specimens for my job from Waleska and points north, no real problems on the roads by that time. By the following Sunday the weather was nice enough in Dublin, GA for a hundred mile bicycle ride in spandex shorts and jerseys.
For a storm that occurred well before my time, it’s kinda crazy to see that such a thing could happen… and this is someone who lived in Oklahoma during the winter of 2020-21
@@beanteam2891 The winter was actually as bad for Oklahoma since a winter storm with the code name Bill had struck Oklahoma with Tons of Freezing rain which crippled in Central Oklahoma Metropolitan Area and left me without power for a week, it also full on canceled Halloween….
I was a kid when this happened and this storm is one of my earliest memories. I was 5 years old and I remember when we opened the door and the snowdrifts were taller then me and we dug out and I remember playing with my childhood dog in the snow. It was a very profound memory for me.
Nicely covered. Well done. I remember this storm. Was 6 years old when it hit here in WV and my mom had just given birth to my brother. She was released from the hospital maybe just a few days prior to it hitting. She was panicking that the power would go out. We lived behind my elementary school on a hillside (I was so close to the school that the edge of my yard was level with the school’s roof - we took ladders and crawled over onto it). The bank was usually covered in briars, but due to the snow, we were able to sled down it and go straight to the playground. I still have the VHS tape of that storm somewhere here with dad recording the measurements every few hours (almost 20” on the last recording with more coming … even on VHS quality, the scenery is still one of the most beautiful things I had seen as a kid with the silence - no birds, no vehicles, just quietness and so much snow weighing down trees). Got us out of school for several days. Was the best thing ever in a 6 year old’s mind, but now that I am older, I hope to never see snow storms like that again (Sandy came too close with the amounts she dumped on us). It’s the one snowstorm everyone still talks about anytime here someone says “oh thank goodness warmer weather is coming in for March” because someone always brings up 1993 lol.
It's was surprising to me that you mentioned the town of Tobyhanna, PA, and Scranton, PA, too! I lived in Gouldsboro, PA, which is the next town north of Tobyhanna, and I went to elementary school in Tobyhanna. I was 8 years old when the storm hit. My most vivid memories of it were the days of school closure, playing with my sister in snow after the storm moved on, and walking back into the school's main entrance between two enormous piles of snow. I remember being amazed at how tall they were.
That winter of 1993 was just ridiculously cold & snowy. My grandma, who would have been 82 at the time, said she'd rarely seen such a miserable cold winter. That January, our area set a low temp record. The storm was fun! I was too young & too beer drunk to care. Yee hawing down the road in the blizzard, could not see where the road was, but I wasn't driving & I felt cozy. Plus, two extra days off work, and Church was excused that Sunday morning. Just a free, young, fun weekend, back in the days when I could fully enjoy those events.
As someone who thruhikes - the fact you mentioned the Appalachian Trail and how it affected them; Sir! You leave no detail untouched. How awesome! You have a new subscriber.
As a 16 year old in retail grocery it was insane leading up to the storm. Also, just like in '96 the totals for rural central Pike county Pa we're either not reported or ignored with both being in excess of 40 inches. Both storms were brutal with wicked winds. In '96 I'll never forget trying to add fluid to my leaky plow pump and the winds made it like trying to hit a moving target as I poured. I honestly miss the real snow and big storms.
FYI I wasn’t born in 1993. My parents both went through the storm. (This was before they were together) My mother told me she lived in a trailer with my 6 month old sister, she woke up around 5:00am to the whole trailer rocking back and forth hard. She had to run out in nothing but her pajamas and my sister, drive to my dads old house and stay there. My dads side of the story was that he worked out at the nuclear plant in Crystal River. It was about 4:00am when his boss asked the people if they wanted to go home, so he said he wanted to. He got home, went to bed and woke up to someone saying all of downtown Crystal River was under water and Homosassa. He said the storm was so bad that one of the PVC pipes to his house got broke and he had to turn off the water for a couple days until he and a relative of mine fixed it. Both my parents said it was the scariest and most interesting night of their lives.
You should do a video on the ice monster in 2008. I was in NH when it happened, we lost power for 18 days and some people were unable to escape their street because of the amount of tree/power lines that were knocked down and couldn't drive. Then it dumped snowed afterwards making things worse. If this is interesting to I'd love to tell you more
Atlanta checking in here. My Mom had a Buick Regal 4-door and the snow on the rear deck was as high as the roof of the car. My street lost power for a few seconds: nothing quite as scary as when the lights flashed out, and nothing quite as much a relief as when they came back on in less than a minute and stayed on. Our Norwegian Elkhound (breed is supposed to be able to survive -75 Fahrenheit) barked to go out, then when she stuck her nose out she decided she didn't have to go that badly. She came back in and lay on her spot by the fireplace. Thirty years later I have another elkhound now. (haven't been without one), and I think 'Dash will be a fine heating pad if we have a similar storm.
I’d love to see Alferia do a video on “The Blizzard Of ‘78”. Growing up in Boston, my family always told me about that storm because it was a few years before I was born.
This is the one I remember from my mom. She was going to California, and it was like summer in Maine. It was seventy, sunny and beautiful. My mom was thrilled to be going back home to have summer weather. She got home to two feet of snow in her driveway. She couldn’t believe it. Also, EVERYONE ignored this. The meteorologists were warning all week that this was going to be one of the worst storms ever recorded in history. No one paid attention, and a lot of people made plans of outdoor activities including a class of high school kids in the Appalachians. Several died, the rest had PTSD and lost themselves in the mountains from each other walking in a line. It was insane.
@JoshGibson-fb7mf about an hour outside of Jacksonville, to the southwest. Nothing stuck on anything, but it was great! Even though I moved to NC and see snow more frequently, I still smile and lift my face up every time. Florida habits are apparently hard to break. 😄
Just discovered your channel today. I find your work to be well informed, engaging, and you seem to have real passion both for meteorology and for the victims of the storms you cover. Keep it up! Don't let your sub count get you down, just keep doing what you're doing and the audience will find you
I remember this storm. I was living in south Jersey at the time. We lost power, school was canceled for a few days and my mom was literally stuck at work. She worked the night shift at a grocery store and couldn't leave the parking lot because it wasn't plowed all day.
Its crazy how this storm covered so many states and everyone was getting diffrent storms it was almost like watching all the seasons of the year at once
8:12 My mom often talks about this storm when it comes to bad weather. It caused her and her sister to get snowed in with their boyfriends for four days because the snow was above waist-high. They only knew about it one day before hand.
The unintentional weather youtube not-exactly-a-collaboration that I wasn't expecting: alferian and weatherbox both posting videos about the same extreme weather event at the same time!
6:35 I grew up in Connecticut and was there for the 1978 Great Blizzrd. That 1978 Blizzar Coverd cars it ws so deep and we had Drifts 10 Feet High or Higher. Fortuanately I had moved to California before Storm of the Century. Great Video!
I was a teenager at the time, and we had just moved back to eastern Kentucky from North Dakota when the storm hit. It was something of a running joke that the snow had followed us south. We spent WEEKS huddled around the stinky kerosene heater reading books, because there was nearly nothing else to do, and it was a long time before the electric came back.
I was a kid living in east Tennessee. We were forecasted to get 2-3 inches, and ended up getting almost 2 feet at my house. We were without power for a week, and a half. I heard a lot of stories of hikers getting stuck in the Smoky mountains. If this had happened when I was older I would've likely been one of them!
I lived in Erie, PA when this came through. I remember not being able to leave my home for nearly a week and being snowed in because of the lake effect that came alongside it all. Lost power for two days from what I remember and having to live in my father's workplace for those days since they had generators.
I lived in the Pocono Mountains of PA when this storm hit. We got buried in over 3 feet of snow. I don't remember much of the food/supply preparing aspect, I was young. We used a wood stove for heat and had plenty of firewood. We had a huge 4x4 truck and were able to get out and about. There was a lot of other snow storms that winter too. We missed so much school, we had to go until the end of June to make up the time.
Was in the typical Pennsylvanian chaos,anarchy OMFG milk bread bread eggs mod scene? I remember the fistfights over those last 6 gallons of milk , 12 loafs of bread 20 jars of peanut butter around the Hershey PA area
I was living in the Poconos of Pennsylvania at the time, and I very much remember it being a total whiteout with how hard the wind was blowing the snow around. We had 45 inches in my specific area, and snow drifts up to the second floor of our house. Thankfully we had a good stock of food and water, because it was a few days without power. Quite the event!
I lived near Flat Top, WV at the time, which I remember seeing on the weather channel as getting 37" of snow (as recorded by Winterplace ski resort). Snow drifts up to six feet near our house. We were without power for five days. We ended up staying with some relatives in nearby Beckley until the power was restored. A Kroger in Beckley had its roof cave in because of the snow. We didn't have school for two or three weeks, and had to go to school until the middle of June that year. I'll never forget it.
I was just thinking today about how this most recent snowstorm compared to the Blizzard of '93. It's the second highest snowfall (10") in my life (I was born in 1956). We had 24 " snowfall during the blizzard of '93. But in '93 we had sub-zero temperatures, so the snow froze, which made it nearly impossible to shovel or remove. Luckily, I never lost power or water, but my cable went out, so I nearly went stir crazy. My parents lived in Chattanooga, TN, and their power was off for 7 days. Luckily they had a fireplace for heat and a gas grill to cook on. Anyone alive in '93 will remember that storm! 😀The video was well done!
the quality of these videos is amazing like seriously the fact these videos aren’t top 20 on trending every upload makes me upset the amount of effort put into these is something I could never sit down and edit through, research, etc get this man to 25K so we can set the goal for 50K by the end of the year!!!!
I lived in west central Connecticut. There its impact was of a large major winter storm but nothing we couldn't handle. The exception was that it started coming down hard in the morning at 11 degrees F and there was a sustained strong wind out of the northeast. Driving was nearly impossible with low visibility and rapidly accumulating snow. The snow was very fine and coming down sideways. As the low passed, we were hit with a warm up that turned the snow to rain but by that time most of the precipitation was gone. We got about 15 inches in Wolcott, CT.
Great video. I lived in Brevard NC at that time. It was INSANE... growing up we would have random big snows... like 8-12 inches...and some bitter cold here and there... but some winters we would get hardly any snow... while other winters we might get 2 or 3 large snows. You just never knew... but this storm was crazy and I had never seen anything like it until a few years later I was living in Lexington KY, where I currently live... in Feb 1998, they were forecasting a dusting and it snowed 18 inches...blew snow in drifts... and I remember thinking that reminded me of the superstorm...but the winds weren't as bad... but they were still blowing ... after the main storm was over, it kept snowing lightly on/off for days and stayed cold.... Oh, I forgot... during the height of the superstorm blizzard, I was in an apartment complex walking through a foot of snow... everything was white... the air, the sky, the ground... and I dropped my keys... never found them.
I remember this storm, because it took place during my last year of high school in Woodbridge, VA. The biggest thing that surprised me was the snow drift on the back of my home. My bedroom was on the second floor, looking over the backyard, now also our home was right up next to hole 16 on Montclair Country Club's golf course, but also was facing the direction of the wind blowing from the hole into my backyard. We ended up withe a drift so tall that I would climb out my bedroom window and slide down the drift to walk to the animal hospital that I worked at in order to take care of all the animals that was stranded there, since I was the only person who could go to the store at the time.
I legit was thinking you had already uploaded a video on this but was disappointed it was on the channel. Very pleased with this upload and glad I subbed!
We live in Central Florida. In the 1990,s in Kissimmee, Florida had a tornado touch down. I would love to see a video of how many times we have had them in Florida touch down.
I was 11 here in Delaware when this storm hit. I remember thinking how beautiful it was and not understanding how people on TV hated it so much. Me and my friend across the street had fun playing and walking in it, and I loved shoveling it because I felt like I was a strong big girl.
I still remember this storm. I was 12 and lived in the Big Bend of Florida. I'll never forget my mom holding me and my sister praying to God to keep us safe as a tornado wizzed by. It was an amazing storm I'll never forget.
Ahhh… My son was a blizzard baby March 15,1993! I remember this so well lol we made the front page paper because he was born in this! Pretty cool story… 🏂❄️☃️
My son also. I shoveled snow all day, the 14th, to dig out my vehicle, just in case, even though the due date wasn't for another week. We had to go to the hospital that night. He was born the next morning.
@@markinvt did the same lol I had a ambulance and truck come to help get me out .. they had to dig a lot I stepped out to get into ambulance and the snow was up to my knees lol! Cool story to tell.. ❄️☃️🤍💙🥶
I was in Springhill Florida in a 20 years old trailer. It was rocking from side to side a inch or two. Thought it was gone to collapse or break away from tie downs. Next day i started digging an underground bunker.
My mother remembers living through this storm in Upstate NY, (Binghamton). Interesting to see much more in depth documentaries coming out about it. This set snow records in Binghamton, only broken by the December 2020 Nor’easter. I’d love to see some breakdown of that, as well. We got over 40 inches in one night.
Thanks, this took me back to the Appalachian Trail. I hiked it in 93’. I was just south of the Smokies on my back in a tent set up in a three sided shelter with three other hikers. I was there three days.
I was a freshman at Appalachian State that year. I was stuck off the mountain 1 hour away. Everything pretty much came to a stand still. My stepfather became a "taxi" for the nurses at a nursing home where my aunt worked so everyone could have time off. The campus reopened a week later. The snow stuck around for quite awhile. Thanks for the video.
March 12 is my birthday! XD I remember that year I got the stomach flu, my first period (TMI), and 6ft of snow. -257/10 do not rec. I lived near Hershey, PA at the time. A couple things I remember about the storm: - School was closed for almost two weeks and we had to go to class into June to make up for it and everyone hated it. - Our back porch nearly collapsed. The snowdrifts were level with its roof (about 8ft) and my dad climbed up on a ladder to shovel snow off of it. He then climbed up on the house roof because we had skylights and he was afraid the glass would crack if he didn't shovel the snow off. - 1991 had also been a year of significant snow. We got like 3ft at once at one point, and this was what motivated dad to buy a newfangled snowblower. We killed two aluminum snow shovels during that storm, but we've still got that old snowblower. XD - We had a woods behind our house and the trees were so laden with ice that several LARGE branches fell into our yard. - I suspect the Blizzard of '93 is responsible for the trend of bricked-in mailboxes. Due to the enormous snow drifts, everyone's mailbox was utterly lost. Many were bulldozed and pulverized by snowplows. A lot of people bought cheap aluminum or plastic ones and mounted them on wooden stakes and just stuck them in the snow drifts until they melted. After that I started seeing a lot of mailboxes built into brick or stone pediments. The trend died off about 15yrs later. - A funny thing: my sister and I usually got sleds for Christmas, but there was rarely enough snow to justify using them. 1993 we got bicycles. XD
We’re from Alabama. My mom was pregnant with me during this storm. Her and my dad both got stuck at their jobs. My dad ended up having to walk to his managers house and stayed there for 3 days. He said he remembered seeing green lightning. My mom was stuck at the hospital she worked at for 3 days. He finally went to rescue her once the roads were drivable. I remember all the pictures I’ve seen over the years from different families and friends. I’ve never seen anything like it again. Alabama is not prepared for anything like that. We always have to borrow snow plows from other states whenever we have significant snow.
I was living in the Blue Ridge Mountains during the storm. The snow drifts were insane and tree's snapped by the weight of the ice on them. I lived in town sort of and I was unable to leave my home for over 2 weeks. It was a very scary storm. Thank you for the video.
I remember this storm. We had 3 plus feet of snow in Virginia, my family in West Virginia had 4 to 5 ft. Can absolutely confirm the snow piles were around through mid April if not later We all wondered if they'd ever melt.
My first wife and I sat at our tiny kitchen table and watched the snow fall in .N.E. Philadelphia pretty much from beginning to end. Our vehicles and my work truck were buried for damn near a week. No roads were open at all. What an adventure that was...
Been enjoying your vids! Wonder if you'll possibly cover that 2019 Bomb Cyclone at some point. Remember driving through the Mountains to get to a work site during the storm. Work had the contract be cancelled once I was 30 miles out from the site lol. Hey, got a free hotel out of it!
I was a kid in 1993 and didn't realize that there had been a huge snowfall compared to other times. Of course I wasn't driving and school was obviously cancelled. It has always just been a time I looked back on and thought "wow we don't get snows like we used to" haha! I never knew how many ways that was true. We had immense flooding that summer (of '93), having to move all our belongings to the second floor of the house (lived by the Missouri river). That connects alot of dots from my childhood, which I haven't thought of in many years. Thanks for the video!
I was in middle school in Norfolk, VA when this happened and I remember walking to McDonald's the day after the storm and literally EVERYTHING in my neighborhood was glazed in ice, whole trees totally encased, right down to each twig individually coated and magnified in a really beautiful way. It was a treacherous walk, but very interesting and kinda fun also.
Great video. I came across your Hurricane Katrina video and have been deep diving your channel for the past few days as a fellow meteorology nerd. If you ever need someone to interview for Hurricanes Charley, Matthew, Frances, Wilma or Jeanne, I have personal experience, with Frances making landfall in my hometown and we only evacuated for Wilma. The 2004-2005 hurricane season doesn’t get talked about enough, but they were intense seasons! Keep up the great work.
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I was a kid in Metro Atlanta. We had been so burned by many "it's gonna snow" forecasts that didn't materialize, that no one really took it seriously until Glenn Burns gave that warning. And even then, though my parents went to the the store, I still packed for a school trip we were supposed to leave on the next morning. Then, it a really snowed.
It was mostly heavy rain here in Halifax Canada but it changed to snow and dropped about 40 CM's but Moncton New Brunswick recorded 151 CM's over 2 days from the storm of the century. White Juan Feb of 2004 broke several 24 hour snowfall records 2 inch per hour rate for 12 hours that peaked to 21.4 CM's rate per hour followed by the next hour of 20.6 CM's 77 mph winds with 2 gusts reported at 91 mph in Halifax. Ecum Secum was the actual top snow amount recorded at 151 CM'S they reported 4 hours of very heavy thundersnow in that storm.
Was living in Hoboken NJ. I remember skiing in the middle of the street. 26in fell during that storm. I lived right across the river from NYC and the PATH Station flooded cause the Hudson River overflowed its bank. What a time to be alive
I’m 1 mile east of Philly & I can honestly attest we had much more than 36-inches. (Chest deep on me & I’m more than 5’ tall.) I had to exit our home by going out the front porch window & digging back to the house. I was 21 years old & my family had a REAL 4X4. I spent 4 days helping neighbors get to hospital, checking on those we hadn’t heard from etc. my Bfriend’s family were stuck in their development for 3 weeks while I helped transport them & neighbors. No exaggeration- their street couldn’t be plowed & we were still driving on at least 12-inches of pack ice/snow for that 3 weeks both in theirs and most side streets. (The mains cleared after 4 days.) When it started to warm, everyone who was healthy enough went to the street & started busting up pack & tossing it to the front yards. We still had snow piles on the lawns in late May & snow mountains in the nearby mall parking lots in July. (I ❤ snow so, for me, it was truly awesome.) BTW…..Never have a snowball fight in July using the leftover snow mountains - it REALLY hurts! 😂
I remember hearing our local news stating we were going to have a blizzard. It was in the 70's and sunshine, so everyone was like " yeah, right!". When tye snow started, and the temperature plummeted, by the time we headed to our local town to get food, and supplies, they had already closed the road going off of the mountain. It was hard to get back hime the snow was falling so hard. 13 of us got snowed in at my mom and dads house for that weekend. My boyfriend at the time drove a motorcycle, so he walked in the blizzard on Saturday, from my parents house to the store with his motorcycle helmet, and his leather jacket. He was our hero! he brought back food, playing cards, and milk and bread from a local family owned grocery store! Although, it took him 8 hours to make it there and back! I married him, and we celebrated our 29th wedding anniversary this year! 😂 Good news... the milk was still good and cold! He had been given a tow sack to drag through the snow amd it was loaded with items for our family to get through the storm with.... Thanks to tye family that iwned Yorks grocery store! They let us pay them when we were able to get out the next week! Great neighbors! We had snow drifts against dads house that were over 13 ft tall( above the first story windows on the north face of his house. On the eastern side of the house snow was about 6ft deep, at the deepest drifts, but a steady 4 ft snowfall covered the rest of dads land! My boys made tunnels under the snow the sunday and monday following the blizzard! Great memories! We did lose a neighbor, who died of a heart attack, tredging through the snow to feed his cattle! Sadly, there were losses, but thankfully we made it through!
I remember this storm well. My friend and I traveled from West Central PA to Falling Water WV to visit old friends. On the way down the radio forecasters were calling for 40' snow drifts. We looked at each other and laughed. By Saturday morning we weren't laughing. We were stranded in WV for 5 days. When they finally opened the roads we went home, the farther north we got the deeper the snow got. Was never so glad to see West Central PA. Glad that hasn't happened since.
I was teaching third grade that year and remember going outside to shovel with my husband every hour or two for an entire day. The plow made a 12-15 foot pile of snow in our cul de sac. Our mailbox was buried, so I made a new one out of a box and put it on a snow pile so we could get mail. School was closed for a week! On TV they asked people who had a snowmobile to help out by bringing doctors and nurses back and forth to the local hospitals. It was CRAZY!!
My mom and her mother with her sister was stuck in the blizzard in Pittsburgh in the house, it was a old three tier house 50s style and the storm absolutely wiped the city of Pittsburgh off the face of the world. Everything was shut down nobody had water or food in the main city and anything that needed to be cooked was essentially unusable and the snow covered everything and damage was high. The civic arena took on many people that needed shelter. Pittsburgh had no idea what was happening neither did my mother. Somebody I talked to that went to pitt campus in 1993 as a junior said that the campus was entirely white and dorms where stacked with kids sheltering together. This storm is historic on many levels for us here in Pittsburgh thanks for covering it.
I was living in central Pennsylvania, just north of Gettysburg when it hit. We had 36” of snow and took 5 days before my normal route to work was cleared. That’s a storm that I’ll remember until I die. I’m sure most people will never forget where they were when it came through.
I was living in San Antonio TX at that time. March 13 is my birthday and I was sad that my husband was scheduled to fly to New York on the 12…however at the last moment his boss called: “Do not get on a plane. This is a bad storm”. It was a nice birthday surprise but I did feel bad for all the people in the path of this! New Subscriber here.
I was in preschool and Just about 4 during this superstorm. I live in Rochester NY. I vaguely remember it, I really only remember playing on the huge mounds of snow in my grandparents’ driveway that extended into the backyard. And looking out our kitchen window in awe. Our swingset was almost buried in snow. My aunt was also 9 months pregnant and due to give birth to my cousin that week. 😲 thankfully she was easily able to get to the hospital a week later.
I remember this storm so well. Coastal South Carolina. We were outside in shorts and short sleeve shirts playing one day, then the storm came. I remember the wind was blowing so hard it would scream through the window sills. Woke up the next morning to snow on the ground and icicles hanging from the house. It was wild. That was the first time I ever saw snow and lightning at the same time too.
I lived in central New York State and I was 22 when this storm happened. I remember the excitement that I was witnessing a once in a century storm. We had no snow on the ground before and after we had nearly 3 feet.
I was in my early 20s in Binghamton NY...i rememner having to creep into intersections because the plowing of the snowy roads stacked snow as high as the light and electeical poles...turning roads into a maze. Creep and pray driving...
This is something people still tell stories about in my small town in Georgia. My Dad worked for the police department and he and my Mom went out to help rescue people who got stuck in their cars on the Interstate. We fortunately didn’t have many deaths in this area because everyone was prepared and even eager to share resources. People who had power helped people who had electric medical devices, people with wood burning fireplaces welcomed friends, family, and neighbors into their homes. There are stories of people walking two or three miles to check on elderly neighbors in remote areas. There was even a fast food cook whose restaurant was near the police and fire departments (our EMC was also based out of the fire department at the time) and learned the restaurant still had power. He walked all the way there through the snow so he could cook for first responders who were working to help people. He wouldn’t accept payment but everyone who could made a point of going there for lunch or dinner a couple times a week for years until he retired.
Yaaay! The long awaited Storm of the Century vid! Awesome job as always & thank you for having me on! It was a pleasure to have the chance to give you a first hand account of the storm!
As a geologist, I like how you mentioned Mount Pinatubo and how it’s eruption affected the climate and being one of the factors for this winter superstorm. Excellent job my guy. 👍🏽
People don’t understand how everything in nature is connected! The volcano of course caused this and people don’t pay enough attention to put two plus two together!
My son was born in the blizzard of March 1993. We live 5 blocks from the hospital and it took us well over an hour to get.
it happened again after Tonga
Remember the Great Flood that same year in the Midwest? Pinotubo's eruption I'm sure was a factor as well.
@@N_g_er What is being gay got to do with the 1993 Superstorm? Entirely irrelavant if you ask me.
I was a junior in high school when this happened and was on a band trip for all state. Thankfully my parents decided to go to the performance because I ended up stuck in north/central Alabama in what became, essentially, a blizzard. We spent 2 days in Auburn in our cabin until we could drive back home to South Alabama. It was insane.
As was I that year. But I’m in Iowa. We missed that storm. That winter was pretty bad all around. In January we had a bad storm here and we all got trapped at another school after a basketball game. They had forecasted the storm to come after midnight. So both schools decided to continue the game. The storm came at 7:00. We kept playing because it was too late. We had a long cold night in the gym of that school and an even colder morning driving back in the buses. But the next winter was even worse. We missed so much school they scheduled Saturday school for us seniors to ensure we were done on time. Then the state waved the snow days and we didn’t have to go to Saturday school.
I’m 42 so I was in 5th grade in Pilot Mountain NC, my dad had just gotten divorced and we were living in a mobile home behind what would soon be my step mom’s parents house. We had a little kerosene heater and would occasionally go next door and sit by the fire and drink hot chocolate and play board games, no cell phones, no social media…what an amazing time, sucks to hear about all the lives lost, especially all those close by on the App Trail, but back then large snowfalls were normal that time of year, we even had another small blizzard in mid-April of that same year! So hiking that trail in March of 93 is wild!!
Super interesting point on the volcano. Had never occurred to me that volcanic eruptions could affect the weather so far away. Learned something new! Great video!
Volcano eruptions have influenced weather many times! It's very interesting how it has impacted history!
A volcanic erruption in 1816 is creditied with having caused "The Year of No Summer" due to all the volcanic ash blocking out the sun.
@@WouldntULikeToKnow. yeah
That's one thing I have never really understood. How can a volcano that erupts in Africa effect the weather in North America? I'm not using a real example, of course, but no matter where the volcano is, the weather is affected. I just don't understand why or how.
It is theorized that the black death was caused by a volcanic eruption 7 years prior to the outbreak. That eruption also kick started the Little Ice Age and also block out the sun for 2 years. This is a perfect example of the Butterfly Effect.
This was simply an incredible storm. When it hit, I lived in Raphine, Virginia, and I was very young; barely 5 years old. We were lower income at that time. We were living in a very small trailer park near White's Truck Stop. My dad worked for VDoT (Virginia Department of Transportation) as a mechanic and, when the winter weather got bad, a snow plow truck driver. VDoT played things cautiously despite the lack of confidence in the forecast, so dad ended up heading out to the nearest VDoT site (in Lexington) and they prepared the day before the storm hit. I specifically remember seeing on the TV one particular meteorologist stating his disbelief that this storm would amount to anything. I remember him saying something along the lines of "I don't get why everyone is panicking - this is only going to be a light dusting of snow." Let's just say that 'light dusting' he claimed ended up being 20-foot snow drifts that we woke up to. We couldn't exit our trailer out the main door; we had to send my brother out the window to go around and start digging the entrance to the house out. You could literally walk from the ground up to the roof of the trailer because the snow drifts were so high. My dad called us to let us know the county roads were impassible and he couldn't make it home. He ended up having to stay at VDoT site in Lexington for 3 days.
When the county roads finally were cleared enough that dad could return to the entrance of our neighborhood, none of our neighborhood's roads had even been touched yet. There was no way his truck could get him the quarter mile uphill to get into our neighborhood, so he ended up parking his truck and began walking. It took him almost 45-50 minutes to get up the quarter-mile hill to our neighborhood. At the time, mom took me outside on the porch to look at the snow since I was simply fascinated with any weather phenomenon. Apparently, both my mom and I missed my dad calling out to us as he slowly worked his way through all the snow to get to us.
Any time there's snow in our forecast, my family still jests with that meteorologist's comment about it only being a 'light dusting' of snow. Better watch out, could be a tiny layer of snow that barely covers the surface... or it could be sufficient snow to have an easy access ramp to your rooftop. Lol.
Cheers, y'all.
I live in Botetourt County-this hit the spring of my junior year in high school. My dad worked for a local water treatment plant -essential employee. He and our neighbors got on the phone, worked who would plow what parts of our road and the main road with their personal farm tractors. (Had to access all the cattle & horse pastures).
We had a couple of neighborhood potlucks and got around on farm equipment, atvs, on foot or horseback. My parents and others who worked outside the neighborhood were able to get back to work quick because of the farmers. Us kids ended up running our farms since we were out of school for awhile.
We used to make the same joke in St Louis. Best birthday present ever was a "dusting" of snow that cancelled school. 6 inches isn't usually enough to cancel school unless all the plow drivers stay home.
@@zeldaali me too but i was a kid though
I was fourteen when it hit. It hit us hard. I live in Georgia
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Yeah, it's bad enough when we northerners get hit with a blizzard - we have shovels and a couple of pairs of snowshoes kicking around...
... but the heart breaks when we hear about sizeable snow in the South.
Alabama? Georgia? South Carolina?
Are you kidding me?? The AT?
"Incredible" doesn't even begin to comprehend that situation...
I was in college in Arizona in 1993 so I am pretty sure I didn't even know how bad that storm was until well after the fact. This video made me think of how different life is these days where everyone has a weather app on their phone and news is considerably more worldwide. For instance, google news makes sure I know all about the 55 feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains this winter season, despite me living in Arizona.
The internet & weather apps would have been life changing for those considering a trip to the Appalachians in 1993.
Wow, this brings back memories. I will never forget this as long as I live. I lived in Chattanooga, Tennessee and I was 11 years old and March 12 is my mother’s birthday. I remember waking up and we were absolutely blown away, trees were down. Everything was completely white. We couldn’t even open the front door because of how much snow was on our porch. We lost power and stayed without power for at least two weeks. We had to cook food on our gas grill and luckily our home had a fireplace in the den so we stayed down in the den for the majority of the time. We built an igloo and I mean an actual igloo that you can get in lol. Never forget it !!!!
@@Limpn00dle19kilo I was up in Cleveland Tennessee just up a bunch Chattanooga there you probably been there before you been in Chattanooga, and we absolutely got buried I lived in a town called Polk county or Benton and we were absolutely buried for 3 weeks with no power. But it was great I was 12 years old I live with my grandparents and I had an absolute blast, a dug tunnels for weeks from what it seemed like and I built a snowman that lasted till April LOL.
I remember this storm! I was just a child back then and all of NYC was blanketed in snow. It was terrifying! I remember trudging through the snow with my mother trying to get to my grandparents home. The snow was so much that it was waist deep. It was insane, especially since the winds was wild
This storm lives forever in my memory as I was only 7 years old living in Charlottesville, Virginia. We received 2 feet and I will never forget how it caught everyone off guard.
I was 10 years old living in eastern Kentucky when this storm hit. We was without power for almost 2 weeks and I remember me and my friends walking to the store in the us army hummer tracks lol the snow was up almost to my waist. It’s was a horrible storm. But at night setting by candle light playing games with my whole family is a time I cherish now.
I was 30 yo living in central NJ and remember being warned by the meteorologists about a week before it hit and by the time it was 3 days before the storm hit that this big storm was coming and it was going to be massive and to be prepared. I followed their advice and was prepared making sure I had everything I needed for over a week. I remember measuring 17" of snow and then it turned to hail which packed it down to about 14" which was followed by freezing rain packing it down even further. The winds were easily in the 60 MPH range and gusts hurricane strength. Then the cold moved in and the temperatures dropped to 10 degrees fahrenheit with the cold weather lasting a few weeks afterwards. The towns came out with their snow plows which didn't work because the ice was so thick and they had to bring out bulldozers and backhoes as everything was frozen solid. In the development I lived in I had to use a pickaxe to carve my way out of my condo carving blocks of ice and then picking them up and moving them off of the sidewalk as if I was about to build an igloo. Luckily I had 2 pickaxes and also a couple of metal garden shovels, but the pickaxes worked the best. All of the cars were frozen in and had to be carved out of the ice. All of the people pitched in and we cleared pretty much all of the sidewalks because the maintenance people couldn't get to our development. The lucky thing was that it hit on the weekend. I videotaped a lot of that storm and have it on VHS somewhere. A few days after the storm the meteorologists were calling it a "norricane".
@@jjoe2662 My husband and I live outside New Haven, CT. The ice on top of the snow was so thick we were walking on top of it. He had to get his 10 pound sledgehammer and break up the ice before we could shovel it. It’s a good thing we were in our 30’s then. We could never do that now. We were so sore we could barely move for days. It was crazy.
I lived in Ringoes New Jersey during that period yes we did have a heavy snows but it wasn't as brutal as where you live could you please tell the people where you lived
Never forget being in school, north of Pittsburgh, 13 years old, we where taken out and had a week off!!! It was awesome week of fun for kids in 3 plus feet of snow lol. The sled riding, playing, incredible time.
I was in north Florida , Perry, probably 15 miles. My lady friend and I where out at the bar partying with another couple.. The TV was turned up.. news was saying 60 MPH winds and heavy rain was coming our friends lived about 80 yards from the beach... I think that because their were some large tree and brush is what saved them Andy and his wife woke up to a 26 ft Rider truck smashing into the corner stilt..it broke one stilt... People 500 yards down the road were not lucky at all... Whole houses .. were gone... that was Keaton beach... power lines were everywhere... I'll never forget looking up that road... thanks for a great doc. I'm a subscriber now.
I always enjoy these documentary videos on weather events! ❤
I was 12 years old and lived in Gadsden AL, we received 12”. Does anybody else remember the “thunder snow”? It was insane!
Yup. I was in Kennesaw, GA when it struck.
@@Cobalt_Dragon0716 Atlanta here, yeah, thunder snow. My Norwegian Elkhound, Grey, was at the front door barking at the thunder (and you haven't heard a dog bark 'til you've heard an elkhound). She loved thunder, but when we let her out for her bladder break, she decided she didn't have to go that bad at that time.
@@5610winston I don't remember the thunder snow, but I DO remember the roof or our fenced-in b-all court caving in (I was in a teen psych treatment center called Devereux when it struck).
Yes I do. I am in northern Alabama
I lived in Attalla,Al where we received 17 inches with drifts of many feet. The thunder and lightning began around midnight with the snow blowing straight across. We were without power for five days but the Lord got us through it.
This was a very memorable part of my childhood growing up in Georgia. Georgia gets some snow occasionally but not in feet. We got over a foot of snow where I lived in Georgia. Overnight it was dumping snow and lightening at the same time. There was thundersnow. As a kid I thought it was awesome. We were pulling plastic sleds with our 4wheeler. We got to sled for days. I fell in a snow drift up to my nips. We did not have to go to school for a while. I don't think my parents believed it was going to happen. My brother woke me up overnight and told me it was snowing. I did not believe him. My dad had a lifted 4x4 truck. He drove around town pulling people out of ditches. Glen Burns the meteorologist recently retired, I watched him for many years on Channel 2 News.
I was in my early 20’s, trapped at my parents house in PA. I was not too thrilled and I’m sure I was insufferable. Thirty years later (and both parents passed on), I’d give anything to be trapped with my parents again. That storm is mostly a good memory for me.
I was in middle school when this came through and I still remember clearly how insane it was. Also remember the snow taking forever to melt and when it finally did flooding the basement of the home we lived in at the time.
I guess it was Tuesday I got out from Atlanta to pick up lab specimens for my job from Waleska and points north, no real problems on the roads by that time. By the following Sunday the weather was nice enough in Dublin, GA for a hundred mile bicycle ride in spandex shorts and jerseys.
For a storm that occurred well before my time, it’s kinda crazy to see that such a thing could happen… and this is someone who lived in Oklahoma during the winter of 2020-21
I was in the Texas deep freeze, calling it crazy would be an understatement.
I was 10 at that time and living in TN, but I do remember hearing about that storm.
@@beanteam2891 The winter was actually as bad for Oklahoma since a winter storm with the code name Bill had struck Oklahoma with Tons of Freezing rain which crippled in Central Oklahoma Metropolitan Area and left me without power for a week, it also full on canceled Halloween….
They said that this california storms could be caused by the last eruption in the pacific.
I remember this storm. I remember the blizzard of 78. Really miss having big storms.
More than happy to hear about the storm of the century from another person. Really enjoying falling down the weather rabbit hole.
I was a kid when this happened and this storm is one of my earliest memories. I was 5 years old and I remember when we opened the door and the snowdrifts were taller then me and we dug out and I remember playing with my childhood dog in the snow. It was a very profound memory for me.
witing for alferia to become wildly popular
Same!
Yeah no kidding Algeria is amazing
Nicely covered. Well done.
I remember this storm. Was 6 years old when it hit here in WV and my mom had just given birth to my brother. She was released from the hospital maybe just a few days prior to it hitting. She was panicking that the power would go out.
We lived behind my elementary school on a hillside (I was so close to the school that the edge of my yard was level with the school’s roof - we took ladders and crawled over onto it). The bank was usually covered in briars, but due to the snow, we were able to sled down it and go straight to the playground. I still have the VHS tape of that storm somewhere here with dad recording the measurements every few hours (almost 20” on the last recording with more coming … even on VHS quality, the scenery is still one of the most beautiful things I had seen as a kid with the silence - no birds, no vehicles, just quietness and so much snow weighing down trees).
Got us out of school for several days. Was the best thing ever in a 6 year old’s mind, but now that I am older, I hope to never see snow storms like that again (Sandy came too close with the amounts she dumped on us).
It’s the one snowstorm everyone still talks about anytime here someone says “oh thank goodness warmer weather is coming in for March” because someone always brings up 1993 lol.
It's was surprising to me that you mentioned the town of Tobyhanna, PA, and Scranton, PA, too! I lived in Gouldsboro, PA, which is the next town north of Tobyhanna, and I went to elementary school in Tobyhanna. I was 8 years old when the storm hit. My most vivid memories of it were the days of school closure, playing with my sister in snow after the storm moved on, and walking back into the school's main entrance between two enormous piles of snow. I remember being amazed at how tall they were.
That winter of 1993 was just ridiculously cold & snowy. My grandma, who would have been 82 at the time, said she'd rarely seen such a miserable cold winter. That January, our area set a low temp record.
The storm was fun! I was too young & too beer drunk to care. Yee hawing down the road in the blizzard, could not see where the road was, but I wasn't driving & I felt cozy.
Plus, two extra days off work, and Church was excused that Sunday morning. Just a free, young, fun weekend, back in the days when I could fully enjoy those events.
Been binging your videos all day. Glad to get in on this. Thank you for the excellent content!!
As someone who thruhikes - the fact you mentioned the Appalachian Trail and how it affected them; Sir! You leave no detail untouched. How awesome! You have a new subscriber.
As a 16 year old in retail grocery it was insane leading up to the storm. Also, just like in '96 the totals for rural central Pike county Pa we're either not reported or ignored with both being in excess of 40 inches. Both storms were brutal with wicked winds. In '96 I'll never forget trying to add fluid to my leaky plow pump and the winds made it like trying to hit a moving target as I poured. I honestly miss the real snow and big storms.
FYI I wasn’t born in 1993.
My parents both went through the storm.
(This was before they were together)
My mother told me she lived in a trailer with my 6 month old sister, she woke up around 5:00am to the whole trailer rocking back and forth hard.
She had to run out in nothing but her pajamas and my sister, drive to my dads old house and stay there.
My dads side of the story was that he worked out at the nuclear plant in Crystal River. It was about 4:00am when his boss asked the people if they wanted to go home, so he said he wanted to.
He got home, went to bed and woke up to someone saying all of downtown Crystal River was under water and Homosassa.
He said the storm was so bad that one of the PVC pipes to his house got broke and he had to turn off the water for a couple days until he and a relative of mine fixed it.
Both my parents said it was the scariest and most interesting night of their lives.
You should do a video on the ice monster in 2008. I was in NH when it happened, we lost power for 18 days and some people were unable to escape their street because of the amount of tree/power lines that were knocked down and couldn't drive. Then it dumped snowed afterwards making things worse. If this is interesting to I'd love to tell you more
Oh please don't mention that that gives me the shivers it was really bad
@@mitchhammond3213 I lived in Manchester at the time and we were largely unscathed, but I knew of people who had no power for weeks. Terrible.
I was on a Girl Scout camping trip on the coast of Florida during the storm. Our cabin took a beating
Atlanta checking in here.
My Mom had a Buick Regal 4-door and the snow on the rear deck was as high as the roof of the car.
My street lost power for a few seconds: nothing quite as scary as when the lights flashed out, and nothing quite as much a relief as when they came back on in less than a minute and stayed on.
Our Norwegian Elkhound (breed is supposed to be able to survive -75 Fahrenheit) barked to go out, then when she stuck her nose out she decided she didn't have to go that badly. She came back in and lay on her spot by the fireplace.
Thirty years later I have another elkhound now. (haven't been without one), and I think 'Dash will be a fine heating pad if we have a similar storm.
I’d love to see Alferia do a video on “The Blizzard Of ‘78”. Growing up in Boston, my family always told me about that storm because it was a few years before I was born.
This is the one I remember from my mom.
She was going to California, and it was like summer in Maine. It was seventy, sunny and beautiful. My mom was thrilled to be going back home to have summer weather.
She got home to two feet of snow in her driveway. She couldn’t believe it.
Also, EVERYONE ignored this. The meteorologists were warning all week that this was going to be one of the worst storms ever recorded in history. No one paid attention, and a lot of people made plans of outdoor activities including a class of high school kids in the Appalachians.
Several died, the rest had PTSD and lost themselves in the mountains from each other walking in a line.
It was insane.
Can you cover the Ice Storm of 98? The power in Maine was out for months.
I was a child living in north Florida. Only time I remember ever seeing snow flakes in Florida. It was brief, but enough to make a lasting memory.
Jacksonville ? I lived in the panhandle area a while back and I remember it getting I bit cold there
@JoshGibson-fb7mf about an hour outside of Jacksonville, to the southwest. Nothing stuck on anything, but it was great! Even though I moved to NC and see snow more frequently, I still smile and lift my face up every time. Florida habits are apparently hard to break. 😄
I can remember as a kid hunkering down for tornadoes in central florida because of this storm
Just discovered your channel today. I find your work to be well informed, engaging, and you seem to have real passion both for meteorology and for the victims of the storms you cover. Keep it up! Don't let your sub count get you down, just keep doing what you're doing and the audience will find you
I remember this storm. I was living in south Jersey at the time. We lost power, school was canceled for a few days and my mom was literally stuck at work. She worked the night shift at a grocery store and couldn't leave the parking lot because it wasn't plowed all day.
your channel is so fire man im obsessed with weather systems glad i found u
Its crazy how this storm covered so many states and everyone was getting diffrent storms it was almost like watching all the seasons of the year at once
8:12 My mom often talks about this storm when it comes to bad weather. It caused her and her sister to get snowed in with their boyfriends for four days because the snow was above waist-high. They only knew about it one day before hand.
The unintentional weather youtube not-exactly-a-collaboration that I wasn't expecting: alferian and weatherbox both posting videos about the same extreme weather event at the same time!
6:35 I grew up in Connecticut and was there for the 1978 Great Blizzrd. That 1978 Blizzar Coverd cars it ws so deep and we had Drifts 10 Feet High or Higher. Fortuanately I had moved to California before Storm of the Century. Great Video!
I was a teenager at the time, and we had just moved back to eastern Kentucky from North Dakota when the storm hit. It was something of a running joke that the snow had followed us south. We spent WEEKS huddled around the stinky kerosene heater reading books, because there was nearly nothing else to do, and it was a long time before the electric came back.
I was a kid living in east Tennessee. We were forecasted to get 2-3 inches, and ended up getting almost 2 feet at my house. We were without power for a week, and a half. I heard a lot of stories of hikers getting stuck in the Smoky mountains. If this had happened when I was older I would've likely been one of them!
I lived in Erie, PA when this came through. I remember not being able to leave my home for nearly a week and being snowed in because of the lake effect that came alongside it all. Lost power for two days from what I remember and having to live in my father's workplace for those days since they had generators.
As a NW Pennsylvanian, I still can't even imagine how bad that was.
I just did a school presentation on this storm! This is such a cool storm and I love your videos!
I lived in the Pocono Mountains of PA when this storm hit. We got buried in over 3 feet of snow. I don't remember much of the food/supply preparing aspect, I was young. We used a wood stove for heat and had plenty of firewood. We had a huge 4x4 truck and were able to get out and about. There was a lot of other snow storms that winter too. We missed so much school, we had to go until the end of June to make up the time.
Was in the typical Pennsylvanian chaos,anarchy OMFG milk bread bread eggs mod scene? I remember the fistfights over those last 6 gallons of milk , 12 loafs of bread 20 jars of peanut butter around the Hershey PA area
I was living in the Poconos of Pennsylvania at the time, and I very much remember it being a total whiteout with how hard the wind was blowing the snow around. We had 45 inches in my specific area, and snow drifts up to the second floor of our house. Thankfully we had a good stock of food and water, because it was a few days without power. Quite the event!
I lived near Flat Top, WV at the time, which I remember seeing on the weather channel as getting 37" of snow (as recorded by Winterplace ski resort). Snow drifts up to six feet near our house. We were without power for five days. We ended up staying with some relatives in nearby Beckley until the power was restored. A Kroger in Beckley had its roof cave in because of the snow. We didn't have school for two or three weeks, and had to go to school until the middle of June that year. I'll never forget it.
I was just thinking today about how this most recent snowstorm compared to the Blizzard of '93. It's the second highest snowfall (10") in my life (I was born in 1956). We had 24 " snowfall during the blizzard of '93. But in '93 we had sub-zero temperatures, so the snow froze, which made it nearly impossible to shovel or remove. Luckily, I never lost power or water, but my cable went out, so I nearly went stir crazy. My parents lived in Chattanooga, TN, and their power was off for 7 days. Luckily they had a fireplace for heat and a gas grill to cook on. Anyone alive in '93 will remember that storm!
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I lived in west central Connecticut. There its impact was of a large major winter storm but nothing we couldn't handle. The exception was that it started coming down hard in the morning at 11 degrees F and there was a sustained strong wind out of the northeast. Driving was nearly impossible with low visibility and rapidly accumulating snow. The snow was very fine and coming down sideways. As the low passed, we were hit with a warm up that turned the snow to rain but by that time most of the precipitation was gone. We got about 15 inches in Wolcott, CT.
I was in Florida, when the storm hit. 0:45
Great work Alferia. RIP to the souls lost and condolences to their families.
Great video. I lived in Brevard NC at that time. It was INSANE... growing up we would have random big snows... like 8-12 inches...and some bitter cold here and there... but some winters we would get hardly any snow... while other winters we might get 2 or 3 large snows. You just never knew... but this storm was crazy and I had never seen anything like it until a few years later I was living in Lexington KY, where I currently live... in Feb 1998, they were forecasting a dusting and it snowed 18 inches...blew snow in drifts... and I remember thinking that reminded me of the superstorm...but the winds weren't as bad... but they were still blowing ... after the main storm was over, it kept snowing lightly on/off for days and stayed cold.... Oh, I forgot... during the height of the superstorm blizzard, I was in an apartment complex walking through a foot of snow... everything was white... the air, the sky, the ground... and I dropped my keys... never found them.
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I remember this storm, because it took place during my last year of high school in Woodbridge, VA. The biggest thing that surprised me was the snow drift on the back of my home. My bedroom was on the second floor, looking over the backyard, now also our home was right up next to hole 16 on Montclair Country Club's golf course, but also was facing the direction of the wind blowing from the hole into my backyard. We ended up withe a drift so tall that I would climb out my bedroom window and slide down the drift to walk to the animal hospital that I worked at in order to take care of all the animals that was stranded there, since I was the only person who could go to the store at the time.
I legit was thinking you had already uploaded a video on this but was disappointed it was on the channel. Very pleased with this upload and glad I subbed!
Your channel is a gem of TH-cam
We live in Central Florida. In the 1990,s in Kissimmee, Florida had a tornado touch down. I would love to see a video of how many times we have had them in Florida touch down.
I was 11 here in Delaware when this storm hit.
I remember thinking how beautiful it was and not understanding how people on TV hated it so much.
Me and my friend across the street had fun playing and walking in it, and I loved shoveling it because I felt like I was a strong big girl.
Was working on the flightline at Tyndall AFB when this storm rolled through. Truly amazing.
Great! I am fascinated by this storm and I don't why, thanks for covering it.
I lived through Andrew (on Floridas west coast) and I remember the 93 "no name cane" was worse for us. Never realized the mess it made up north.
I still remember this storm. I was 12 and lived in the Big Bend of Florida. I'll never forget my mom holding me and my sister praying to God to keep us safe as a tornado wizzed by. It was an amazing storm I'll never forget.
Ahhh… My son was a blizzard baby March 15,1993! I remember this so well lol we made the front page paper because he was born in this! Pretty cool story… 🏂❄️☃️
My son also. I shoveled snow all day, the 14th, to dig out my vehicle, just in case, even though the due date wasn't for another week. We had to go to the hospital that night. He was born the next morning.
@@markinvt did the same lol I had a ambulance and truck come to help get me out .. they had to dig a lot I stepped out to get into ambulance and the snow was up to my knees lol! Cool story to tell.. ❄️☃️🤍💙🥶
I was in Springhill Florida in a 20 years old trailer. It was rocking from side to side a inch or two. Thought it was gone to collapse or break away from tie downs. Next day i started digging an underground bunker.
My mother remembers living through this storm in Upstate NY, (Binghamton). Interesting to see much more in depth documentaries coming out about it. This set snow records in Binghamton, only broken by the December 2020 Nor’easter. I’d love to see some breakdown of that, as well. We got over 40 inches in one night.
I was living in Binghamton during this storm too...I was a 23 year old single mother of a four year old.
@@gingercarner8733 ‘93 or 2020? Both were totally different situations lol
@@ethanmcintyre7148 93...I had moved south by 2020, but we had a nasty ice storm in NC in 2020
@@ethanmcintyre7148 93
In Florida for 2020
Thanks, this took me back to the Appalachian Trail. I hiked it in 93’. I was just south of the Smokies on my back in a tent set up in a three sided shelter with three other hikers. I was there three days.
I was living just below where it made landfall in the Springhill area. I do not remember any warning at all. Went to sleep and woke up in a mess.
I was a freshman at Appalachian State that year. I was stuck off the mountain 1 hour away. Everything pretty much came to a stand still. My stepfather became a "taxi" for the nurses at a nursing home where my aunt worked so everyone could have time off. The campus reopened a week later. The snow stuck around for quite awhile. Thanks for the video.
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March 12 is my birthday! XD I remember that year I got the stomach flu, my first period (TMI), and 6ft of snow. -257/10 do not rec. I lived near Hershey, PA at the time.
A couple things I remember about the storm:
- School was closed for almost two weeks and we had to go to class into June to make up for it and everyone hated it.
- Our back porch nearly collapsed. The snowdrifts were level with its roof (about 8ft) and my dad climbed up on a ladder to shovel snow off of it. He then climbed up on the house roof because we had skylights and he was afraid the glass would crack if he didn't shovel the snow off.
- 1991 had also been a year of significant snow. We got like 3ft at once at one point, and this was what motivated dad to buy a newfangled snowblower. We killed two aluminum snow shovels during that storm, but we've still got that old snowblower. XD
- We had a woods behind our house and the trees were so laden with ice that several LARGE branches fell into our yard.
- I suspect the Blizzard of '93 is responsible for the trend of bricked-in mailboxes. Due to the enormous snow drifts, everyone's mailbox was utterly lost. Many were bulldozed and pulverized by snowplows. A lot of people bought cheap aluminum or plastic ones and mounted them on wooden stakes and just stuck them in the snow drifts until they melted. After that I started seeing a lot of mailboxes built into brick or stone pediments. The trend died off about 15yrs later.
- A funny thing: my sister and I usually got sleds for Christmas, but there was rarely enough snow to justify using them. 1993 we got bicycles. XD
We’re from Alabama. My mom was pregnant with me during this storm. Her and my dad both got stuck at their jobs.
My dad ended up having to walk to his managers house and stayed there for 3 days. He said he remembered seeing green lightning.
My mom was stuck at the hospital she worked at for 3 days.
He finally went to rescue her once the roads were drivable.
I remember all the pictures I’ve seen over the years from different families and friends. I’ve never seen anything like it again.
Alabama is not prepared for anything like that. We always have to borrow snow plows from other states whenever we have significant snow.
I was living in the Blue Ridge Mountains during the storm. The snow drifts were insane and tree's snapped by the weight of the ice on them. I lived in town sort of and I was unable to leave my home for over 2 weeks. It was a very scary storm. Thank you for the video.
I remember this storm. We had 3 plus feet of snow in Virginia, my family in West Virginia had 4 to 5 ft. Can absolutely confirm the snow piles were around through mid April if not later
We all wondered if they'd ever melt.
My first wife and I sat at our tiny kitchen table and watched the snow fall in .N.E. Philadelphia pretty much from beginning to end. Our vehicles and my work truck were buried for damn near a week. No roads were open at all. What an adventure that was...
Been enjoying your vids! Wonder if you'll possibly cover that 2019 Bomb Cyclone at some point. Remember driving through the Mountains to get to a work site during the storm. Work had the contract be cancelled once I was 30 miles out from the site lol. Hey, got a free hotel out of it!
I was a kid in 1993 and didn't realize that there had been a huge snowfall compared to other times. Of course I wasn't driving and school was obviously cancelled. It has always just been a time I looked back on and thought "wow we don't get snows like we used to" haha! I never knew how many ways that was true.
We had immense flooding that summer (of '93), having to move all our belongings to the second floor of the house (lived by the Missouri river). That connects alot of dots from my childhood, which I haven't thought of in many years. Thanks for the video!
I was in middle school in Norfolk, VA when this happened and I remember walking to McDonald's the day after the storm and literally EVERYTHING in my neighborhood was glazed in ice, whole trees totally encased, right down to each twig individually coated and magnified in a really beautiful way. It was a treacherous walk, but very interesting and kinda fun also.
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I was a kid in Metro Atlanta. We had been so burned by many "it's gonna snow" forecasts that didn't materialize, that no one really took it seriously until Glenn Burns gave that warning. And even then, though my parents went to the the store, I still packed for a school trip we were supposed to leave on the next morning. Then, it a really snowed.
It was mostly heavy rain here in Halifax Canada but it changed to snow and dropped about 40 CM's but Moncton New Brunswick recorded 151 CM's over 2 days from the storm of the century. White Juan Feb of 2004 broke several 24 hour snowfall records 2 inch per hour rate for 12 hours that peaked to 21.4 CM's rate per hour followed by the next hour of 20.6 CM's 77 mph winds with 2 gusts reported at 91 mph in Halifax. Ecum Secum was the actual top snow amount recorded at 151 CM'S they reported 4 hours of very heavy thundersnow in that storm.
Something to listen to at work for Wednesday morning! Yay!
Was living in Hoboken NJ. I remember skiing in the middle of the street. 26in fell during that storm. I lived right across the river from NYC and the PATH Station flooded cause the Hudson River overflowed its bank. What a time to be alive
I’m 1 mile east of Philly & I can honestly attest we had much more than 36-inches. (Chest deep on me & I’m more than 5’ tall.) I had to exit our home by going out the front porch window & digging back to the house. I was 21 years old & my family had a REAL 4X4. I spent 4 days helping neighbors get to hospital, checking on those we hadn’t heard from etc. my Bfriend’s family were stuck in their development for 3 weeks while I helped transport them & neighbors. No exaggeration- their street couldn’t be plowed & we were still driving on at least 12-inches of pack ice/snow for that 3 weeks both in theirs and most side streets. (The mains cleared after 4 days.)
When it started to warm, everyone who was healthy enough went to the street & started busting up pack & tossing it to the front yards. We still had snow piles on the lawns in late May & snow mountains in the nearby mall parking lots in July. (I ❤ snow so, for me, it was truly awesome.) BTW…..Never have a snowball fight in July using the leftover snow mountains - it REALLY hurts! 😂
I remember hearing our local news stating we were going to have a blizzard. It was in the 70's and sunshine, so everyone was like " yeah, right!".
When tye snow started, and the temperature plummeted, by the time we headed to our local town to get food, and supplies, they had already closed the road going off of the mountain. It was hard to get back hime the snow was falling so hard. 13 of us got snowed in at my mom and dads house for that weekend. My boyfriend at the time drove a motorcycle, so he walked in the blizzard on Saturday, from my parents house to the store with his motorcycle helmet, and his leather jacket. He was our hero! he brought back food, playing cards, and milk and bread from a local family owned grocery store!
Although, it took him 8 hours to make it there and back! I married him, and we celebrated our 29th wedding anniversary this year!
😂 Good news... the milk was still good and cold! He had been given a tow sack to drag through the snow amd it was loaded with items for our family to get through the storm with.... Thanks to tye family that iwned Yorks grocery store! They let us pay them when we were able to get out the next week! Great neighbors!
We had snow drifts against dads house that were over 13 ft tall( above the first story windows on the north face of his house. On the eastern side of the house snow was about 6ft deep, at the deepest drifts, but a steady 4 ft snowfall covered the rest of dads land! My boys made tunnels under the snow the sunday and monday following the blizzard! Great memories!
We did lose a neighbor, who died of a heart attack, tredging through the snow to feed his cattle! Sadly, there were losses, but thankfully we made it through!
I was 10 and living in Daytona FL. I remember this storm vividly. Crazy wind and rain.
I remember this storm well. My friend and I traveled from West Central PA to Falling Water WV to visit old friends. On the way down the radio forecasters were calling for 40' snow drifts. We looked at each other and laughed. By Saturday morning we weren't laughing. We were stranded in WV for 5 days. When they finally opened the roads we went home, the farther north we got the deeper the snow got. Was never so glad to see West Central PA. Glad that hasn't happened since.
I was teaching third grade that year and remember going outside to shovel with my husband every hour or two for an entire day. The plow made a 12-15 foot pile of snow in our cul de sac. Our mailbox was buried, so I made a new one out of a box and put it on a snow pile so we could get mail. School was closed for a week! On TV they asked people who had a snowmobile to help out by bringing doctors and nurses back and forth to the local hospitals. It was CRAZY!!
My mom and her mother with her sister was stuck in the blizzard in Pittsburgh in the house, it was a old three tier house 50s style and the storm absolutely wiped the city of Pittsburgh off the face of the world. Everything was shut down nobody had water or food in the main city and anything that needed to be cooked was essentially unusable and the snow covered everything and damage was high. The civic arena took on many people that needed shelter. Pittsburgh had no idea what was happening neither did my mother. Somebody I talked to that went to pitt campus in 1993 as a junior said that the campus was entirely white and dorms where stacked with kids sheltering together. This storm is historic on many levels for us here in Pittsburgh thanks for covering it.
I was living in central Pennsylvania, just north of Gettysburg when it hit. We had 36” of snow and took 5 days before my normal route to work was cleared. That’s a storm that I’ll remember until I die. I’m sure most people will never forget where they were when it came through.
I was living in San Antonio TX at that time. March 13 is my birthday and I was sad that my husband was scheduled to fly to New York on the 12…however at the last moment his boss called: “Do not get on a plane. This is a bad storm”. It was a nice birthday surprise but I did feel bad for all the people in the path of this!
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I was in preschool and Just about 4 during this superstorm. I live in Rochester NY. I vaguely remember it, I really only remember playing on the huge mounds of snow in my grandparents’ driveway that extended into the backyard. And looking out our kitchen window in awe. Our swingset was almost buried in snow. My aunt was also 9 months pregnant and due to give birth to my cousin that week. 😲 thankfully she was easily able to get to the hospital a week later.
I remember this storm so well. Coastal South Carolina. We were outside in shorts and short sleeve shirts playing one day, then the storm came. I remember the wind was blowing so hard it would scream through the window sills. Woke up the next morning to snow on the ground and icicles hanging from the house. It was wild. That was the first time I ever saw snow and lightning at the same time too.
Started employment in 82 for DPW in Conn.working all storms, was promoted to supervisor on the day of this 93 blizzard.This was one of the tough ones.
I lived in central New York State and I was 22 when this storm happened. I remember the excitement that I was witnessing a once in a century storm. We had no snow on the ground before and after we had nearly 3 feet.
I was in my early 20s in Binghamton NY...i rememner having to creep into intersections because the plowing of the snowy roads stacked snow as high as the light and electeical poles...turning roads into a maze. Creep and pray driving...
This is something people still tell stories about in my small town in Georgia. My Dad worked for the police department and he and my Mom went out to help rescue people who got stuck in their cars on the Interstate. We fortunately didn’t have many deaths in this area because everyone was prepared and even eager to share resources. People who had power helped people who had electric medical devices, people with wood burning fireplaces welcomed friends, family, and neighbors into their homes. There are stories of people walking two or three miles to check on elderly neighbors in remote areas. There was even a fast food cook whose restaurant was near the police and fire departments (our EMC was also based out of the fire department at the time) and learned the restaurant still had power. He walked all the way there through the snow so he could cook for first responders who were working to help people. He wouldn’t accept payment but everyone who could made a point of going there for lunch or dinner a couple times a week for years until he retired.