Throwback: April Fool's Blizzard

This April Fool's Day we all enjoyed opening day of Baseball, however, sixteen years ago in 1997 a late-season snowstorm dropped three feet of snow in some place along the eastern seaboard. Due to the date that the storm fell on people took the warnings less seriously, because they thought is was a prank. Many called it a "Mother Natures April Fool's Joke". Also because the snow storm was so late in the season most of the plows were stored for the summer and shovels were put back into storage. Despite the late of readiness from the public there were only four storm related deaths, three of which were heart attacks from shoveling. Below is Fenway Park in Boston, buried in 24 inches of snow. I also put a figure from the National Weather Service that shows who got the most snow from this storm.



Photo From:
noaa.gov
wcvb.com
politico.com