The 1993 Storm Of The Century - The Original Superstorm - A Retrospective And Analysis
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Early March, 1993. Many across the United States were preparing for the Spring Season, as March marks the transition from meteorological winter into spring. People were wishing for the warmer temperatures, the flowers to come to bloom, and the springtime sports to come faster. However, despite these wishes that many people had across the Eastern part of the country, Mother Nature had other plans.
In Mid-March of 1993, a powerful nor'easter brought its wrath to the eastern United States in the form of a strong serial derecho in central and southern Florida, and the most remembered part of the system, one of the worst blizzards to hit the eastern United States. Snowfall totals ranging from 4-10 inches across Alabama, with a long line of snowfall totals ranging from 10-20 inches of snow from Northern Alabama and Georgia throughout the majority of the eastern part of the country, to extreme snowfall totals of over 20 inches across large swaths of the Appalachian mountains, the Ohio River Valley, The Northeast, and New England. Its effects were widespread, from high storm surge in Florida, to the snow, the extreme cold behind the system, and the strong winds. Nearly every state in its path was caught off guard, closing numerous interstates from Atlanta through the Northeast. Each area in its path has its own story to tell regarding what happened before, during, and after one of the most powerful storm complexes to ever rock the country in recent memory. So today, I’m going to take a deep dive into the 1993 Storm of the Century, going over the synopsis of the storm complex, the preparations taken, what happened during the storm itself across the various areas that were significantly affected, the aftermath, the lessons learned, and the significance of the event. Welcome to Nature’s Fury.
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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.
@@MiggerPlease 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.
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
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.
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 always enjoy these documentary videos on weather events! ❤
witing for alferia to become wildly popular
Same!
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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.
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 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".
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.
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.
More than happy to hear about the storm of the century from another person. Really enjoying falling down the weather rabbit hole.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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. 😄
Been binging your videos all day. Glad to get in on this. Thank you for the excellent content!!
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
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 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.
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 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 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!
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.
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.
your channel is so fire man im obsessed with weather systems glad i found u
I remember my mom telling me about this storm (I was 3 at the time). She worked at the same business as her mother, and mom's department was allowed to leave early, so she beat the storm home. Grandma was allowed to leave early but not as early, and ended up driving home at about 10 miles per hour through a whiteout snowstorm for about half of the drive. And there were other departments who stayed later and ended up having to stay overnight at work because it was no longer possible for them to leave. For context, this was in the Syracuse area of New York, where we're used to big snow storms and whiteouts and know how to keep the roads open. The storm was just that bad, that quickly, plows couldn't keep up.
Great work Alferia. RIP to the souls lost and condolences to their families.
Another thing about Penatubo’s 1991 eruption: A Category 2 hurricane also propelled the ash farther since it made landfall as Penatubo erupted
Yep, Typhoon Yunya
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!
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.
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!
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.
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!
Great! I am fascinated by this storm and I don't why, thanks for covering it.
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.
I just did a school presentation on this storm! This is such a cool storm and I love your videos!
this man needs 1 million subs
Your channel is a gem of UA-cam
Something to listen to at work for Wednesday morning! Yay!
YES, IVE WANTED THIS SINCE I WATCHED THE DEEP FREEZE VIDEO!!
seriously dude, good on ya.👍🏻
I lived in Douglas County Ga. The storm was unrelenting. Snow drifts to the tops of stop signs, electricity out for many days. Temps well below zero. We never will forget!!
I lived through this storm. I then lived in Thomasville, GA. My mother lived in Fitzgerald, GA, 100 miles north of my home. I got up early that morning and the local TV from Tallahassee, FL said a low pressure had developed across the Gulf of Mexico and had created a low pressure of 28.86”, the lowest pressure ever measured in that area. IIt was cool and windy that morning as we drove to my mother’s house. When we got there I could not believe my eyes - two 100’ cedar trees had blown down and were resting on our horse barn. I cranked up the tractor and pulled them off the horse barn, cut them up with a chain saw and pulled them out of the horse paddock. As I stepped off the tractor a gust of wind blew me straight to the ground. The horses were scared to death and were running around the paddock, uncontrollable. I fed them and tried to repair the damage to the barn but finally decided to tackle it on a better day. We drove home in gusts over 60 mph and it snowed all the way, much as it had done while I was at the farm. In contrast, the previous day it had been 80 degrees at the farm, because I had cut some trees down with a new chainsaw I had gotten that day. It was hot is all I remember. The next day it was below freezing. I drove over a lot of downed power lines on the way home. My mother got her power back before we left.
I’ll never forget this storm. I was 20 yrs old, I lived in NE Ohio at the time and took my 3 yr old daughter on a Disney vacation. The first half was at Disney Orlando, and the second half was on a Disney Cruise. We had no idea the severity of the storm. No cell phones, no internet. By day we were in shorts, by evening it was 30° and we were scrambling to buy sweatshirts. A tornado ripped through the Disney complex while we slept. We woke up to trees cut in half all over the place and the tram drivers just saying a tornado blew through over night. The boat we were supposed to be on got stuck on a sandbar in the Atlantic, so the group I was with was able to get an extra night at Disney while Premier Cruise lines sent another ship. Had I known what was to come next, I would have cut my vacation short. Literally no one was telling us anything. I had no idea there was a blizzard happening at home. Since we were on vacation we were trying to get the most out of it and never turned on the tv. And Disney never shut down. This was by far the scariest and worst vacation I’ve ever experienced. It was also my first and last cruise. The first day of the cruise was hot and muggy. The passengers were angry because they had to double book the ship since ours was stuck on a sandbar. People that paid for outside staterooms got moved to inside rooms with bunkbeds. We had an outside stateroom near the top deck. In port I couldn’t see the water from my view trying to look down. Everyone was saying they were going to get a refund after this trip was over. The Disney characters showed up for one story for kids and was no where to be seen the rest of trip. We were supposed to have a Disney party for the kids, no one showed up. We sat in an empty party room with 30 other parents and kids waiting for an hour. Also, there was limited food. We had cold cuts for lunch. Breakfast, lunch and dinner and that was it. The power went out on the ship and sweaty crewman got on our table in the dining room with a hammer and chisel trying to open the patina’ed port holes for circulation. They announced free punch to everyone waiting in the line for lunch. The ship moaned in anger. Then they announced free drinks. People were grabbing one for each hand while they all compared notes on what they paid for and what they got. There was one midnight buffet the last night…the scariest night. We went to the buffet, and sat upper deck around the pool. The ship started to rock. The roof over the pool started to open slowly and slam shut. We thought, let’s get back to our rooms. The storm started picking up making it difficult to walk back. I got my daughter tucked tightly into the bed. She was scared, I told her to sleep that it was just a little waves. She fell asleep. Then the storm got very violent. I thought we were going to die. I’ve never seen waves so high…I was so terrified I was numb. I couldn’t speak. I could see nothing but a wall of water through lightning flashes followed by the ship shaking from the stabilizer bars coming out of the water all night long. We were literally vertical in our beds. When the ship went low, the water looked like a tower, then like ten seconds later the boat would shake and creak. I was holding onto the bed for dear life in complete silence. Fully dressed with shoes on. Then we hit something, sounded like metal scraping down the side of the boat. Not once did the captain say anything. As the sun started rise, the storm abated. Thank goodness we were in port and ready to get off. At breakfast, our waiter said the crew was so sick. They were seasoned sailors but spent the night vomiting. (My poor kid was throwing up as well.) They were called to the deck wearing life jackets thinking they would have to bale, but not one word was said to anyone on board. We asked him what we hit. He played dumb. When we got off the boat, people were on their hands and knees kissing the pavement. The crew along with the captain rushed out to look at huge scrap all down the side of the ship. I’ve often wondered if we hit a yacht that went missing during the storm with two couples on it. It was in the vicinity of where we were. I haven’t found one other person online talking about their time in the Atlantic during this storm. But I’ll never forget the 1993 Storm of the Century
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!
Was working on the flightline at Tyndall AFB when this storm rolled through. Truly amazing.
So excited!!! Thank you for all you hard work in your videos!! Seeing a new video of yours makes my entire day! ❤️
Ah known as "the blizzard of 93" here in knoxville,tn.
Yup! I got stuck in a snowdrift behind my neighbor's house in Lenoir City. I was out walking with a friend, and I forgot that the hill dipped there. I dropped down with snow up to my waist almost. I turned 11 during the storm, and I remember my thought process trying not to panic. It was... a learning experience. 🤞
That was a bizarre weather pattern. Lenoir City had a tornado in February, then a blizzard in March, and then a flood in April. We all were kinda concerned about what could possibly happen in May. 😂
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.
I’m born in June 1993, so obviously couldn’t recall that storm. I’m born and raised in Montreal, where they received a foot and a half of snow, the temperatures dropped to -11F the next day (-23C) and the wind blew at 55 mph. It started on a Saturday, so while disruptive in intensity, I read that the city went all back to normal on Monday morning. I’ve known worst conditions myself many times over through my chore of shoveling the snow on sidewalks and roof at my condo tower and through my love for hiking on mountains in winter. Honestly I had no idea it made such an impact in the USA. When I was a kid we used to play outside in the snow all day in storms like these because schools were closed for the day, but the next day we knew we had to go back to school. From age 6 I walked to go to school, every day, under every weather condition, I remember playing in the snow at recess with school friends, in the huge mountains of snow made by snow blowers and snow plows, at temperatures below 0F for days. So watching this video was interesting, as it showed me the landscape of our winters in southern locations. I didn’t know snow was so uncommon in the deep south. I also didn’t really think that people would raid supermarkets and gas stations in the days prior. I remember vividly the Ice Storm of 98 that we had and we lived for three weeks without electricity, we all went to my grandparents’ cabin and spent a joyful family forced winter vacation. Maybe this storm has such great memories for some of you, memories that aren’t so easily forgotten once we’ve passed beyond the stress that such a storm can cause, from what I’ve seen in this video.
Was living in upper East Tennessee when this happened. Was on spring break from school. We had anywhere from 24”-36” pretty much everywhere around me. It was warm the day before this hit, almost 70 degrees. I remember being woke up in the middle of the night by thunderstorms(was actually thunder snow). I couldn’t believe what I saw when I looked out the window. I assumed it was a dream and went back to sleep. Woke up several hours later to still blowing winds and heavy heavy snow. I will REMEMBER for the rest of my life when I woke and realized it was a dream come true as a young teen. Could only hope to play in something similar with my kids. So far--nothing to write home about. Here’s to hoping this is our year.
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I was on a Girl Scout camping trip on the coast of Florida during the storm. Our cabin took a beating
First of all, wild hearing someone pronounce the city/county of Mobile's name correctly (light-heartedly, of course, I know most folks see it and think it's pronounced like you would mobile phone). Second, this is the most snow that the city has seen since. I was born years after the storm, but everything gets shut down now if we hear of snow coming (that might be partially due to the fact that people here can barely drive under normal conditions 🤦🏼♀️). A fascinating topic to be sure!
I’m from northern NY and during this time I just happened to be with my parents at my uncle’s wedding in Hartford Connecticut. I was 10 but I remember how crazy it was. The wind and snow just kept coming and we were trapped in a hotel. I think it delayed our return home by a day. When we did get home my grandparents had, no joke, 8+ foot tall piles of snow on each side of their driveway. The neighbors had cleared their driveway for them and the plows pushed up snow causing those large piles. I don’t remember how long it took to melt, but I’m sure it was a while.
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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.
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.
We love Glenn Burns here in Atlanta he became legendary after that forecast came to pass.
Took balls to go on the air and warn people what could have not come to pass while the other forecasters on the other stations were more worried about what would happen to their reputation then the safety of their viewers.
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.
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.. ❄️☃️🤍💙🥶
:O it's 10 days after the 30th anniversary of the storm of the century
Can’t wait to watch it 😊
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I definitely remember this storm. I was 13 at the time. My parents and I had gone up to northern Massachusetts that Friday night to visit my brother. We got in there around 11pm. We knew nothing about the storm coming up. We spent the day and night with him. We got back to his house from dinner around 9pm. He had a message on his machine from our neighbor saying that a storm was coming saying over a foot of snow. We turn med on the Weather Channel and saw that it was true. We went back to the hotel and packed up and left at 11pm that night. We drove home and didn’t hit the storm until we hit the New Jersey Turnpike. We were lucky and were able to follow a snow plow most of the way down that road. The last 2 hours were really bad. We did make it home, and glad we left when we did. If we didn’t we don’t know when we would have made it home with all the road closures.
My family were in the foothills of western NC where we got 20 inches of snow. It was snowing the night before but with little wind. The next morning we woke up with no power, an already cold house, and wind HOWLING. We had a neighbor with a Jeep who was able to get us out and we stayed with my wife's aunt who lived near a transformer and never lost power. Our power did not get back on until almost 6 DAYS later. Then just two years later we had an ice storm and AGAIN lost power for almost 6 days!
I was 10 and living in Daytona FL. I remember this storm vividly. Crazy wind and rain.
It used to always snow here in central Indiana now no matter what system comes they just go right around us. I got to experience this as a child, in southern Indiana, i remember it buried our suv, and half the house, electricity got cut off, the only person with power was my grandma who had a generator so we went to stay warm over there. It was something I’ll never forget. Times have certianly changed, we’re never see that kind of snow anymore and it’s sad. Makes you wonder what has changed. Now they just go after the east coast.
I can remember as a kid hunkering down for tornadoes in central florida because of this storm
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 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!
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1st time i became infatuated with thunder snow! Still to this day i recall 93 & just hope for the anomaly to capture my childhood curiosity!
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
I can never forget that storm, though not caught in the middle of it, it was the very tail end of it and right after the storm when I stranded in Tennessee outside of Knoxville while driving to South Carolina from Ohio for spring break. While in Ohio, we had some effects of it with 45 mph winds and light to moderate snow as the snow was roaring through the southeast.
Fascinating.
I remember that storm! I lived in Upstate NY and we were snowed in fir 3 days! We stood on the roof of our porch and could touch the snow! It covered our entire truck!
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 left for a Florida vacation that weekend from Central NY, didn't take the truck out of 4 wheel drive till somewhere in Georgia. Crazy ride, almost died in the mountains of Pennsylvania. Made it to Jacksonville in 22 hours. Normally 18 hour drive.
Thank you ..I remember how things were when I was younger in the late 70s to the mid 90s ...I littelerly saw the world differenttky meaning visuals and now I know why...thank you
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Thanks for making a vid on the Blizzard of 93!
Remember this like it was yesterday!!!! I wonder if we will ever see it again? Great video! And being a Birmingham native! Thanks for the detailed video of a great childhood memory! I just subscribed! Much love and Thanks! 💯 🙏 ❤
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I remember it well. I lived in Montgomery, Alabama. I didn't even know that thunder snow was a thing. It freaked me out!
We lost power for a few hours but we were on the grid with a hospital and a prison so i think we got our power back quickly ! We usually did. Even after hurricanes Opal and Ivan we were out of power for less than a day.
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. 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.