Unusual Events in History
05-26-2010, 11:15 AM
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I grew up in what some would call a hollerp (even if it was in Wisconsin). A very small village between two hills. Most of the people came from Kentucky around 1900. It was all virgin timber at that time so there was a lot of logging AND there was a lot of moonshining. Once, the feds came looking for a particular still. They were given such cockeyed directions that they ended up lost in the hills for 3 days. They never came back. My Grandpa always made his own brandy and according to my Dad, sampled it quite often!
05-26-2010, 05:11 PM
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We received almost seven feet of snow in five days. It wasn't too long ago, but historic.
* A total of 81.5 inches fell from Monday morning through Friday afternoon at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport in suburban Cheektowaga, where the city's weather records are kept. Buffalo gets an average of 93.5 inches a year.
* In a city that had seen only five days that had a least a 20-inch snowfall in more than 100 years of recorded weather history, there were three in five days.
* The city went from having its lowest December snowfall ever -- 1.2 inches before Dec. 24 -- to its highest in any month in history.
* A total of 81.5 inches fell from Monday morning through Friday afternoon at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport in suburban Cheektowaga, where the city's weather records are kept. Buffalo gets an average of 93.5 inches a year.
* In a city that had seen only five days that had a least a 20-inch snowfall in more than 100 years of recorded weather history, there were three in five days.
* The city went from having its lowest December snowfall ever -- 1.2 inches before Dec. 24 -- to its highest in any month in history.
05-26-2010, 06:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Beth33
We received almost seven feet of snow in five days. It wasn't too long ago, but historic.
* A total of 81.5 inches fell from Monday morning through Friday afternoon at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport in suburban Cheektowaga, where the city's weather records are kept. Buffalo gets an average of 93.5 inches a year.
* In a city that had seen only five days that had a least a 20-inch snowfall in more than 100 years of recorded weather history, there were three in five days.
* The city went from having its lowest December snowfall ever -- 1.2 inches before Dec. 24 -- to its highest in any month in history.
* A total of 81.5 inches fell from Monday morning through Friday afternoon at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport in suburban Cheektowaga, where the city's weather records are kept. Buffalo gets an average of 93.5 inches a year.
* In a city that had seen only five days that had a least a 20-inch snowfall in more than 100 years of recorded weather history, there were three in five days.
* The city went from having its lowest December snowfall ever -- 1.2 inches before Dec. 24 -- to its highest in any month in history.
05-26-2010, 06:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Scissor Queen
There's a town south of where I was born that's the only place in the U.S to have been bombed during WWII. In the town where I was born there the tale of how the county court house was stolen during the middle of the night from the next little town over so the county seat would be there. The little town the court house building was stolen from doesn't exist anymore. There was also a "famous" bank robbery where I was born and it's on the Santa Fe trail so there's lots of history from that too.
05-26-2010, 06:11 PM
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Originally Posted by raptureready
Originally Posted by Scissor Queen
There's a town south of where I was born that's the only place in the U.S to have been bombed during WWII. In the town where I was born there the tale of how the county court house was stolen during the middle of the night from the next little town over so the county seat would be there. The little town the court house building was stolen from doesn't exist anymore. There was also a "famous" bank robbery where I was born and it's on the Santa Fe trail so there's lots of history from that too.
05-27-2010, 06:08 AM
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where I went to school, Fairmount, Indiana, USA
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also home of actor, James Dean (we have a musuem)
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05-27-2010, 06:12 AM
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Well, General Sherman ended his march in my town. The men were so exhausted and hungry that they slautered their horses and ate them. All that was left as they moved on was the horses heads. Hence, the town's name, Horseheads. Imagine what the town would have been called if the other end of the horse was left.
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