Milford chronicle., 1940-02-02


walk from Chester, Pa, to the Nea
Jersey coast.
There was a ten-inch snow We'd
nesday, April /. 1875. The average
thickness Of ice during the winter Oi
1880 was six inches and the snow,
fall twelve inches.
On Wednesday, February 8, 1886
there was a heavy snow which Il
said to have been twenty inches deeI
and blocked traffic.
The blizzard of Sunday night
March IL, 1888, is well known tC
many. Il started late at night with
a heavy rain and suddenly the tenn
perature dropped causing a heavy
freeze At II O'clock a heavy snow
storm set in and continued with un-
abated fury until the next afternoon.
1t was accompanied by heavy gale
until Tuesday, March 13. Snow was
piled up from six to ten feet. Traffic
throughout the country was either
paralyzed or demoraIized.
A cold north wind accompanied
the storm and it was so severe that
the bark on fruit trees was split and
what sap there happened to be Id
the trees at the time it was frozen,
resulted in almost a total failure Of
the fruit crops. Thus this was the
blizzard of March, 'Ss,
which has been commented upon
for the past thirty or more years.
Three feet Of snow fell in the State
on Friday and Saturday, March 2T-2S,
1891.
Train traffic was brought to a
standstill because of huge snow
drifts on Tuesday, February Z, 1893.
There was a blizzard, with ~ in
ches of snow, on Wednesday. Janu-
ary 25. 1894. Wires were down
the Delmarva Peninsula.
The biggest snowfall within mem
ory Of the past three generations oc-
Cured on Saturday, Sunday and
Monday, February IL, ~ and IS, 1899.
This was the greatest blizzard since
he Civil War days. Snow reached a
iepth Of thirty-six inches on the
evel, with drift sof ten feet. The
now started on Saturday night and
continued for two and a half days.
continuously. On Monday, the 18th,
here was a heavy freeze and people |
we're able to sled over fences. There
we're no mails or schools for a week |
n lower Delaware. Snow, in spots.
emained on the ground until the
middle Of May. Many farmers. pre-
laring to plant their spring crops,
lad to plow around the snOwbanks
n their fields.
There was a twenty inch snow on |
friday night and Saturday, Decem-
Ter 24-25, 1909, and sleighing for
early a month. Cold weather pre-
allied and zero weather was almost
cached.
There was a heavy snow on Thurs
ay, January 26, 1905, and on Sun
lay, March Z, 1907. Traffic was ham,
,ered. and both SHOWS remained on
he ground for several weeks.
On Saturday and Easter Sunday
April ga, 1915, there was a nine
nch snow, followed on Monday by
haw which flooded the streets here
md made it almost impossible for
to travel.
There was on Saturday, February
IA, 1920, and also on Sunday. Febru-
ary 20, 1888, heavy SHOWS. accom-
panied by electrical storms of al
most tropical intensity The peals of !
thunder and flashes of lightning oc-
CURED during a heavy fall of snow
This was something unknown or un-
heard of by the residents within the
past forty or fifty years.
,f IA IL
rafiic for a week between many
POINTS of lower Delaware because of
lrifts on Saturday, January 80, 1921.
The main highway between George
own and Lewes was not passabIe for
week.
There was ten-inch snow on
Tuesday, March II. 1881. and a snow
rom to inches on Saturday. De-
ember II, 1882.
On Thursday and Friday. February
a, 1886, there was an 1S-inch snow.
Fifteen inches fell and blocked
rafic on Saturday. December IS,
9SS. i
There was a fourteen-inch snow on
aturday. January %, 1928, and the
Ollowing Tuesday from two to four
lches more.
On Sunday, December %, 1885,
here was a fall of six inches and on
Wednesday christmas Day night
)ur more inches and the following
unday six more inches.
On Wednesday and Thursday. jan
ary 1884, 1885, there was a fall of
n inches in the central section of
iwer Delaware and eighteen inches
/ the northern section of the State.
leet and snow paralyzed telephone
throughout the Pen
sula. Over 1900 telephones were put
1t of commission, 900 poles were
IN down and 1900 out of plumb, !
sting the telephone company, ac-
riding to estimate, about $3.50 900.
was the most severe storm in
larter of a century.
hours of continuous
ow from Sunday morning, Decem
r 20. at 10 o'clock to Monday af-
rnoon, December 80, at o'clock,
1885, is a record storm. The snow
Il was about ten inches on top of
S-inch snow of December %, 1885.
Iere were drifts three and four
It high in many sections and roads
re almost impossible for manyi
urs.
There was a total snowfall of
I'm 16 to 20 inches during the !
,rIns of Sunday, December %, Z
December 25, and Sun
y. December 30, 1885.
The snowfall Of Sunday night and :
,nday, January SO, this year. total
about 13 inches in lower Sussex
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