This story comes with decades of built up legend and a bit of myth mixed in. Did Mayor Mel Lastman make the right call when he brought in military assistance to help in that 1999 snow storm? You must understand, by this point, during the passage of just 11 days, Toronto had already received more than 100 centimetres of snow, and as it was expected to keep falling overnight, making it possibly the snowiest January in 200 years.

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It hit seven occupied vehicles and destroyed 97 feet (30 m) of guard rail before eventually plunging through the winter ice and into the Potomac River. There were 79 people on board including 74 passengers and five crew members.

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An estimated three million people were affected by the quake, that equates to 20% of the nation's 10.4 million population at that time. One of the most horrifying facts from this January 12th earthquake story out of Haiti is that by January 24th, almost 2 weeks after the initial quake, there had been at least 52 aftershocks measuring 4.5 or greater!!

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Here are just some of the more noteworthy totals from those 2 days:

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Blowing snow brought visibility to virtually 0 for several hours. All vehicle traffic was either ground to a stand-still or ordered to halt, as highways were closed. The poor to no visibility and strong winds, with worst gusts, shut down the airports in both Prince Albert and Saskatoon.  And that left a lot of people with absolutely no way of getting anywhere by land or air.

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It happened the morning of January 9, 2015, in freezing cold blustery conditions. At the time of the accident, it was reported by those involved that visibility was down to ZERO; total a white-out conditions. There was a semi leaking fuel AND in another transport there were Fireworks!  Yes, 40,000 lbs. of commercial grade fireworks, right next to the blaze!

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An island in East Africa and Located in the Indian Ocean, nowhere on Earth sees heavier rainstorms than the tiny French island, Reunion Island. But NOTHING compared to this!

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When you drive through the town of Allendale, you will notice its rugged yet quaint properties that make this wee town rather charming.  What today you will not see is any evidence of the devastating F4 tornado that all but wiped Allendale of the state map in 1989.

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Winters in Seattle can be rough, like Vancouver to its north, it can be rain soaked for much of the season. The Seattle NBA Super Sonics first competed in their home, the Coliseum, in 1966. It featured a poorly constructed roof that had a history of allowing rain to drip down and wet the floor during storms. Is it any wonder they moved to OKC eventually?

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Sadly by January 5th, 2007, third-busiest ski resort in Canada (after Whistler, B.C., and Tremblant, Quebec), Ontario’s largest ski resort, Blue Mountain, in Collingwood, was forced to lay-off 1,300 workers while they had to close down all ski operations in the middle of the winter season! It was the first time in the resort's 65-year history where they actually closed in a season for poor conditions.

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