Electric generators became hot commodities, and businesses as far south as Syracuse had entire stocks gobbled up. The enormous wind-driven storm continued to wreak havoc on five counties near the Canadian border today. State Trooper Keith Fox described the situation: "Everything is just totally ice-covered, with inches of ice. Local Video of the North Country. A total of 120 trucks, 60 water trailers and 40 military ambulances were dispatched. When these two currents collided, the warm air rose above the cold; the precipitation consequently fell as rain but froze as it reached lower altitudes or hit the ground. The ice storm of 1998 was one of the largest natural disasters in Canadian history. m_gallery_json = "https://expo.advance.net/static/759f7fb5a8/data.json"; George E. Pataki mobilized National Guard troops and state rescue workers today in one of the state's largest emergency responses ever as a relentless blast of sleet, snow and freezing rain paralyzed cities, villages and towns across a huge swath of upstate New York for a fourth day. m_gallery_title = "Ice storm devastates North Country in 1998"; More than one fifth of Canada’s syrup-producing tree taps were severely impacted by the storm. Home Town Cable Network of Northern New York. ", "It's passing left an indelible mark on both the landscape and the soul. Bryne Dairy, Wegmans and P&C were just some of the businesses to send trucks of food up north. It began on Jan. 7, 1998, and it was not long before the magnitude of the storm was realized. By late today, emergency workers had 90 emergency shelters set up throughout the storm-damaged region that covered Jefferson, Essex, St. Lawrence, Clinton and Franklin Counties, where Mr. Pataki had declared a state of emergency on Thursday night. DR-1198. About 600,000 people had to leave their homes. Though Kingston and Ottawa were hit hard, the majority of the affected workers were in Québec, which suffered the most severe economic costs of the storm. In, Bonikowsky, Laura Neilson, and Niko Block, "Ice Storm of 1998". And the State University of New York set up emergency shelters at its campuses at Potsdam and Canton. In all, nine people had died as result of the storm; four from carbon monoxide poisoning, two from accidental falls, and the other from fire, heart attack and hypothermia. 1940s. The science of ice storms: Why the freeze was so fierceAn article about how ice storms happen and why they are so damaging. The Great Ice Storm of 1998 delivered nearly 4 inches of ice to our area in the form of freezing rain, acting as a menace to roads, trees and power lines. Upstate New York has its share of extreme weather. With the 1998 Ice Storm, it really depending on exactly which part of New York, New England and southeastern Canada you were travelling through or living that ultimately determined how bad it was. ... New York Severe Thunderstorms and Tornadoes. In the ice storm of 1998, there were more than 80 hours of freezing rain, nearly double the annual average. In costs ($365 million and counting), utility poles snapped (8,000), and length of time electrical power was snuffed (a record 23 days), it's the one by which all the rest will be measured. Throwback Thursday: Former mayor Lee Alexander pleads guilty in 1988. ", Joanne McQuade, of Richville, said before the storm there might have been four people in town with portable generators, afterwards "there are probably not four without.". Declared on Sunday, June 7, 1998 - 20:00. Three weeks after the beginning of the storm, there were still 700,000 people without power. Great Britain Ice Storm of January 26–30, 1940. ''We will do everything humanly possible to help the people of the North Country make it through this incredible storm,'' said Mr. Pataki, who traveled to the area from Albany to assess the devastation.
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