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Buffalo Blizzard Of 77 Case Study

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The Buffalo blizzard of 77 began in December 1976. Extremely cold start to winter Lake Erie froze over. About 36 in of snow covered over the iced lake for the next 6 weeks. On January 28th, 1977 a big wall of black clouds started to form. Later on that day, heavy snow started to fall, the winds blew up to 45 mph. Around 3 p.m. the blizzard had started winds over 75 mph, visibility was at 0%, the temperature dropped to 1 degree. The blizzard was about 25 hours long, 29 people had died cause if the blizzard. Cars where stuck under the thick snow piles, people where trapped in houses, power wasn't working. They had to have several bulldozers to clean the snow from the streets. Weather conditions from the months leading to the blizzard

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