NATIONAL WEATHER HISTORY
1936 MARCH STORMS NEW
ENGLAND AND MID WEST
This post to facebook is
in recognition of the past few weeks in 2019 of mid
west, New York. Pennsylvania and New England storms, an
83 year period.
Saturday, March 21,
1936, Salisbury Daily Times reported floods spreading destruction
into new areas and snow
storms hampering relief work in New England , Ohio and other mid
west
sections. 167 people are
said to have died, 260,000 made homeless and property damage loss
near
$300,000,000.
Pennsylvania digging out of flood debris, beset by snow and rain,
faces a food
shortage and disease.
Surging waters of the
Connecticut and Ohio rivers created a great menace to life and
property.
The Connecticut at a record
high of 37 feet, rushed into Hartford , knocking out utilities
and it's
industries. The Ohio, after
going through Wheeling, flooded small Ohio and Kentucky towns,
causing
the residents to flee as
danger approached. Rivers in Maine struck a score of
communities. The
Merrimack rushed on
undiminished. Central New York state began a rehabilitation
program distributing typhoid serum, food and clothing.
President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt delayed his vacation to continue his
personal
charge of relief
activities.
Abstract: Salisbury Daily
Times, March 21, 1936, Saturday.
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