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Mon Nov-23-09 02:01 PM
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Anyone here from Western New York who remembers "blue snow"? |
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My husband grew up in a small town south of Buffalo. He recalls being kept inside for a few days because of blue snow falling. He thinks it was fallout from a nuclear test out West. This would have been in the 50's.
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Mon Nov-23-09 02:05 PM
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1. Google has a book reference: |
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# America's nuclear legacy - Google Books Result by Wayne D. LeBaron - 1998 - History - 320 pages nuclear testing program in regard to the harmful effect of fallout resulting ... BLUE SNOW News reports have stated that radioactive fallout from a Nevada ... books.google.com/books?isbn=1560725567... - # B
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Mon Nov-23-09 02:40 PM
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2. That confirms a blue snow reference to nuclear fallout; I wonder |
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what caused the blue color? What most people don't know is that a lot of fallout came down over New York State following tests out West - including the first Trinity test! http://www.brookings.edu/projects/archive/nucweapons/box7_5.aspxhttp://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/nyregion/book-examines-nevada-test-that-left-fallout-in-troy-ny.html I'm trying to track down a specific event in the Buffalo, new York area.
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Mon Nov-23-09 05:16 PM
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8. Go to the archives of the local newspapers on microfisch at the local libraries. |
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They'll have stories indexed on that.
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Mon Nov-23-09 03:01 PM
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3. I was there in the 50s |
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But don't remember any blue snow. Of course, I was very young at the time. The area just south of Buffalo does get a lot of snow, though, even when the rest of the area is dry.
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Mon Nov-23-09 03:03 PM
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4. From what I can gather, radioactive debris that was thrown high into |
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the atmosphere came down over parts of New York State in our typical lake squalls several times. Being the 50's, no one was supposed to notice.
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Mon Nov-23-09 03:17 PM
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5. Only Blue Snow I Remember |
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in Kensington, Md was a late season snow about March 1958 that was very wet. Brought down lots of tree limbs and electric lines. You could push a yard stick into the snow and see the blue color. We had no power for three weeks. My parents joked about there wasn't anything else to do so there was a baby boom the following December.
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Mon Nov-23-09 03:23 PM
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6. Hmmmmm.... If small particles of fallout served as nuclei to |
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precipitate the snow fall..... I'm assuming a heavy wet March snowfall would have been an unusual event in Maryland back then.
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Mon Nov-23-09 03:57 PM
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7. I was born in western NY in '52 in a small town call Westfield on Lake Erie. |
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Unfortunately I didn't live there long and remember nothing about it. My mother might except she has Alzheimer's and doesn't remember me.
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Mon Nov-23-09 05:24 PM
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9. We have DU thread on related stuff |
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