Snow and Life in Alpena
The Great Storm of November 1913
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Snow and Life in Alpena The Great Storm of November 1913
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(That's the top of the State Theater on 2nd Avenue that you can see there)
The storm of November 8-10, 1913 landed a lot of snow on the Alpena area. It also hurt the Great Lakes Shipping Industry a great deal - 20 ships were lost or damaged within the first 16 hours of the storm!
Check out these links for more about the storm:
The Night 12 Ships Vanished on the Great Lakes - Detroit News - Currently Offline, no archives available
HELL HATH' NO FURY LIKE A GREAT LAKES FALL STORM - William R. Deedler, Weather Historian
The Great Storm of 1913 - Glen Willis
