          APOD: 2018 January 21 - The Upper Michigan Blizzard of 1938

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                                2018 January 21
                                      [2]
                     The Upper Michigan Blizzard of 1938
            Image Credit: Bill Brinkman; Courtesy: Paula Rocco [3]

Explanation: Yes, but can your blizzard do this? In Upper Michigan [4] 's
Storm of the Century in 1938, some snow drifts reached the level of utility
poles [5] . Nearly a meter of new and unexpected snow fell over two days in a
storm that started 80 years ago this week. As snow fell and gale-force winds
[6]  piled snow to surreal heights [7] ; many roads became not only impassable
but unplowable; people became stranded; cars, school buses and a train became
mired; and even a dangerous fire raged [8] . Fortunately only two people were
killed, although some student [9] s were forced to spend several consecutive
days at school. The featured image [10] was taken by a local resident soon
after the storm. Although all of this snow eventually melted [11] , repeated
snow storms like this help build lasting glaciers [12] in snowy regions of our
planet Earth [13] .

                 Tomorrow's picture: our galaxy's center [14]

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  [2] image/1801/snowpoles_brinkman_960.jpg
  [3] https://www.facebook.com/pages/Suomi-Restaurant/203042349717213
  [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Michigan
  [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_pole
  [6]
http://books.google.com/
books?id=1vioLQGvvz8C&pg=PA156&dq=%2B%221938%22+storm+of+the+century&hl=en&sa=X
&ei=1breUorcC-
O52QWuqYGwAQ&ved=0CEEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%2B%221938%22%20storm%20of%20the%20cen
tury&f=false
  [7] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blizzard2_-_NOAA.jpg
  [8]
http://tylerrtichelaar.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/
marquettes-opera-house-the-1938-fire-and-blizzard/
  [9]
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b1/c8/e3/
b1c8e3101db30b200cec55976b9ec648--funniest-animals-funny-animals.jpg
  [10]  image/1401/snowpoles_brinkman_2592.jpg
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