Quote from: RE on Jan 29, 2026, 12:04 PMAPNEWS.COM • 2026-01-29
Worries deepen in US South after days of grappling with snow, ice and widespread outages
Now up to 70 corpses
Last years big winter storm was 100.
In 1922 "The Knickerbocker Storm" killed 98 people from just the roof of a building collapsing. The Great Appalachian Storm of 1950 got at least 160. And this is my homeland, I always thought we would do fine in storms being more self sufficient than most. I was around for the Blizzard of 78, that got 100 people. The Storm of the Century in 1993? 318 people. The Blizard of 2003 was pipsqueak comed to all of these. Snowmageddon in 2010 was just a nice storm locally, I'm got some good pictures of the kids digging out the Hummer in that one.
106 folks in 2022. I talked to some folks back east today, and they are still having trouble with the after effects.
S0 100 seems like a good high quality deadly winter storm, but you might need 300 to get it into "bigger and baddest" category. Certainly nothing even remotely "doom of America!" worthy.