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When Niagara Froze!


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1911 Photos of Niagara Falls ...

 

Amazing pictures !!! Almost 100 years old.

 

A woman's mother had a cousin living in Niagara Falls that year.

 

She told the family that she and her neighbours woke up in the

night feeling something was wrong.

It took a while but they finally realized that it was the lack of noise.

 

They had all become so used to the roar of the falls that the

silence was unusual enough to alert their senses.

Of course at that time nearly all the houses were near the falls.

 

Can you imagine walking on Niagara falls ???

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I went to Niagara when i was a teenager and it is very weird how everything has this roaring background noise, there is also so much mist created that the sheets in the hotels are ever so slightly damp (and no, i didn't wet the bed!) We also had a friendly racoon outside our window which you could stroke if you fed it. Canada is like a clean, friendly slightly dull version of the states.

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We went to Niagara last January and it was bloody freezing. The railings and trees were covered in the most fantastic looking ice formations, we went down in the tunnels behind the Falls and it was the coldest I've ever been. I would recommend anyone to go there in winter and it was really quiet, hardly anyone there.

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I can't see the pictures, but I'm assuming its about the time the whole country froze in a real freak event. Yet just about 50 miles or so over the border people were starving in a horrendous drought in Chad at temperatures over 50C. The African climate is really bizarre sometimes.

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I can't see the pictures, but I'm assuming its about the time the whole country froze in a real freak event. Yet just about 50 miles or so over the border people were starving in a horrendous drought in Chad at temperatures over 50C. The African climate is really bizarre sometimes.
amazing wht those Yanks can do. One minute they buy London bridge the next they tow africa to their border, you have to give it to them
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To be fair, this is probably quite a rare event, not really an indicator of the existance of global warming. Btw, I'm not a denier.

 

The falls were frozen when I visited them just before Easter 1971. They were illuminated and it was a beautiful sight.

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