TODAY  Version 3.7   06/24/94       Copyright 1986, 1994  By Patrick Kincaid

 Today is Tuesday  January 18, 2005.
 This is the 18th day of the year, there are 347 days left.

 On this day...
    In 1857 A great cold storm swept across the Atlantic Seaboard.
            Snowfall totals of 12 inches were common, whole gales caused
            shipwrecks and damaged property on islands, and temperatures
            near zero prevailed from Virginia northward.  Great drifts
            of snow blocked transportation.  Richmond VA was cut off from
            Washington DC for a week.
    In 1973 In Cory Louisiana, a baby was carried by strong tornado
            winds 300 to 400 yards and received only minor injuries.
    In 1987 A storm in the south central U.S. blanketed Oklahoma City
            with eight inches of snow, their highest total since 1948.
            Snowfall totals in Oklahoma ranged up to 13 inches at Gage,
            with drifts five feet high.  Roof collapses across the
            state resulted in seven million dollars damage.
    In 1988 A storm in the southwestern U.S. produced a 15 to 20 foot
            surf along the southern coast of California resulting in
            more than fifty million dollars damage.  A small tornado
            in Orange County CA lifted a baseball dugout fifteen feet
            into the air and deposited it in the street, 150 yards away.
            The same storm also produced 26 inches of snow at Duck Creek
            UT.
    In 1989 While fair and mild weather prevailed across the forty-eight
            states, bitter cold gripped Alaska.  The high temperature for
            the day at Fairbanks was 30 degrees below zero. Thunderstorms
            along the western Gulf coast drenched parts of southwest
            Houston with more than four inches of rain.
    In 1990 A winter storm produced heavy snow and high winds across the
            southwestern U.S.  Snowfall totals ranged up to 18 inches at
            Lake Arrowhead CA and Ashford AZ.  High winds in New Mexico
            gusted to 100 mph east of Albuquerque.  Unseasonably warm
            weather continued from Texas to the Atlantic coast.  Twenty
            cities reported record high temperatures for the date
            including Roanoke VA with a reading of 71 degrees.


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