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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThe Day Niagara Falls Stopped
Niagara Falls paused for 30 hours beginning March 29, 1848 when an ice jam upstream stopped the flow. (picture is from Niagara Falls in the very early 20th century, but the 1848 stoppage probably looked very similar)
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The Day Niagara Falls Stopped (Original Post)
My Good Babushka
Nov 2014
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jmowreader
(50,601 posts)1. The obvious question...
When the ice jam upstream broke and the normal flow of water resumed...well, how many of those people's bodies are still at the base of the falls, never to be recovered?
My Good Babushka
(2,710 posts)2. I didn't read about any fatalities associated with the event
Maybe everyone stayed inside because it was sooooo cold!
rug
(82,333 posts)3. Engineers stopped the American Falls for five months in 1969.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)4. Was there... saw that....
That was the time I was thinking of.
Five of use drove up from Manhattan for the sole purpose of seeing Niagara Falls and the damned thing was closed! At least Horsehoe Falls was running.
By the time we got back I had consoled myself with the thought that what we saw was a lot rarer.