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Landers: The sky would not fall this time either  Posted By
Brooke Wisdom On December 1, 2009 @ 8:00 am In In the
Magazine,Kirk Landers | No Comments  Kirk [1]The sky would not
fall this time either  Signs of the apocalypse were unmistakable
in 1993.  An epic late winter storm lashed the entire U.S. East
Coast with high winds, Biblical snows and Arctic cold.
Birmingham, Ala., took 70 mph winds, 13 inches of snow, and saw
temperatures plunge to 2 degrees Fahrenheit. Sixty inches of
snow buried the mountains of North Carolina. Upstate New York
saw 40 inches of snow in two days.  A female jockey won a Triple
Crown horse race for the first time in history.  Fox
Broadcasting Corporation was formed.  Torrential summer rains
engulfed the Mississippi and Missouri river valleys, creating
$12 billion in crop and property damage, the worst flood damage
in recorded U.S. history.  And Congress raised the fuel tax.  In
1993, the average price of gasoline ranged from