13 years ago today

[Jim Cantore]

All hell began to break loose






$4 Billion in damage and over 350 People dead

[Jim Cantore]

This indicates snow in Biloxi, Sidell, and Mobile


This is insane

[terstorm1012]

My parents were out of town so we weathered the storm at our nanny's house. It was wicked. We made sandwiches and watched the storm wash houses away down the Shore.

As the storm passed the wind and snow got worse and worse. As it changed over to ice/sleet thunder and lightening broke out.

At one point the sun came out. Then the winds shifted and it turned back to snow. The fraking storm had a EYE FEATURE. It was INSANE!

Most who died, however, died shoveling snow afterwards. Heart attacks and such. It was this storm that probably got the Press to putting major emphasis on shoveling safety.

[bob rulz]

I don't remember it very well, but I lived in Greensboro, North Carolina at the time and we lost power for almost 3 days. The weather records say we only got 5 inches, and the maps above seem to confirm it; haha, losing power for 3 days because of 5 inches of snow.

[Tstormwatcher]

I remember it, we had a bunch of rain in the morning, then it got real warm and very windy, gusts up to 50mph. Then the backside hit, temps dropped and we ended up with about 3 inches of snow. Quit a day.

[Brent]

This indicates snow in Biloxi, Sidell, and Mobile

Yep... it snowed in the Florida Panhandle(and I'm talking AT THE BEACH) as well.

[JonathanBelles]

if it could only happen again only send some snow here

[angelwing]

33 inches of snow in Philly...I remember it well

[Hybridstorm_November2001]

Quite the storm indeed I doubt we will see one like that again for a long time. I got about 20 inches of snow out of it, 10 inches each of the two days it affected my region. Not the wrose storm I can remember, but pretty damn close.

[WaitingForSiren]

blah blah blah enough about this stupid nor-easter. Lol.

[Jim Cantore]

33 inches of snow in Philly...I remember it well

Everything I read says about 15"

I dont remember the storm though but I wish I could

[angelwing]

Oh it was that high, I still remember Herb Clark on CHannel 10, he was getting really upset, at one point thought he'd have a heart attack. I'm going to see if I can find something on it

[angelwing]

Ahhh I got the wrong month/year, it was January 96:

http://ols.nndc.noaa.gov/plolstore/plsq ... -PUB-A0001

I remember a March storm that was during a weekend (only because my camper got totalled)think that was 20 plus inches, not sure..got my months messed up

[Hurricaneman]

That storm was awesome, would have been better here if it didnt turn to rain

[terstorm1012]

yea we got at most a foot in philly, because it turned to ice.

there was about an inch of ice on top of the snow, then it snowed again on top of the ice.

it stayed cold until about the 1st of April too.

[Kim_in_MN]

33 inches of snow in Philly...I remember it well

Everything I read says about 15"

I dont remember the storm though but I wish I could

I don't remember it either, but then my son was under a month old at the time, so I was probably suffering from sleep deprivation!

Kim

[HurricaneHunter914]

That is insane!

[ohiostorm]

I was alot younger but I remember going outside the next day and playing on the forzen creeks and in the deep drifts. We have some video stashed away somewhere. Might have to find it.

[AL Chili Pepper]

This indicates snow in Biloxi, Sidell, and Mobile

Yep, that's the first thundersnow I ever saw. We got 2-3 inches here in Mobile.

[Extremeweatherguy]

It is still amazing to think it snowed all the way down to the Gulf (including the western FL peninsula) in late MARCH!!!