Fun_People Archive
19 Mar
The sudden silence...

Date: Tue, 19 Mar 96 13:07:20 -0800
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: The sudden silence...

Forwarded-by: Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com>
Forwarded-by: hen@panix.com (Henry Bar-Lewaw)
Forwarded-by: kerstin.muth@oln.com

Here's some weather trivia:

1)  1848
As a result of a wind-driven ice jam near Buffalo, Niagara Falls ran dry.
The sudden silence startled hundreds from their sleep and filled churches
with those who feared the end of the world.  Others walked out onto the
river bed to hunt for artifacts.  By 1 April, the river and the falls had
returned to normal.

The 1996 Canadian Weather Trivia Calendar.  Copyright 1995 Environment Canada.
Distributed by University of Toronto Press. 1-800-565-9523.

© 1996 Peter Langston