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White Death - The Blizzard of '77A Canadian - American survival classic. |
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White Death - The Blizzard of '77A Canadian - American survival classic. |
I was looking out my window of my lakeshore home on the morning of Friday, January 28, 1977. Through field glasses, I watched a flock of greater Canada geese feeding on the corn that I had spread for them on the frozen surface of Lake Erie, just a stone throw away. Suddenly the geese all collapsed on their breasts onto the ice facing into the breeze. They then pulled their feet up into their breast feathers. Twisting their necks backwards, they then tucked their bills and heads into their back feathers.
I looked out onto the frozen lake. I saw a wall of white as high as a mountain flowing across the ice toward the geese and my home. That wall of snow hit my house with hurricane force and almost shattered the bay windows. The blizzard of the century had arrived.
On the fourth and final day of the storm, I tucked my camera inside my parka and waited for a clearing in the blowing snow. I then crawled across the snow toward the geese. That photo ends the Canadian Experience on page 192.
Later on that fourth day, during another clearing in the storm, those same geese all stood up, strutted about, flapped their wings and then took flight toward the open water of the Niagara River. The blizzard of the millennium had ended.
Erno Rossi is a freelance writer-photographer, world traveler, outdoor columnist, best-selling author and former teacher of history, sociology and disaster survival. He is a member of the Canadian Authors Association and The Writers Union of Canada.
I accept media and speaking dates about the Blizzard of '77, in person or by communication hookup. To convention groups, conferences, service clubs and schools I present a 30 or 60 minute slide show of the blizzard with my live comments and accept questions or comments about the storm during and after the presentation. A reasonable honorarium to cover costs is expected, anywhere in the world.
If you wish to use my photo to publicize my event, it is available for download.
I'd appreciate your comments about how to improve WHITE DEATH - BLIZZARD OF '77 for the next revised edition. Please feel free to critique my book and Web site or ask questions by e-mail at .
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