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On January 19th, 1977 , freezing weather conditions in Miami, Florida <span style="color: rgb(90, 221, 221); font-size: 120%;"> caused major damage to <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(255, 135, 0);">citrus crops <span style="color: rgb(90, 221, 221); font-size: 120%;">. There was snowfall in Miami for the first and only time in history. The <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 123, 255);">winter of 1976-77 <span style="color: rgb(90, 221, 221); font-size: 120%;"> will be remembered as one of the coldest winters in history for the east half of the United States. New York got <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">181.1 inches of snow <span style="color: rgb(90, 221, 221); font-size: 120%;"> that winter, and they were forced to ship the snow that had been removed from the streets away by rail.



<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Winter wasn't the only time that the United States experienced <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">severe weather in 1977 <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">. There were multiple floods in Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Mississippi. Rainfall was insane, in West Virginia in a <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">30-hour time period <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, more than **15 inches of rain** had fallen. **5.5 inches** had been expected.



<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 123, 255);">Another record flood was in West Virginia, when the <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Guyandotte River <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 123, 255);"> flooded. It caused <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(128, 128, 0);">disaster in 4 states <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 123, 255);"> (West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee). There were <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(64, 64, 64);">22 deaths <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 123, 255);">, about <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(255, 135, 0);">40,000 families were affected <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 123, 255);">, and more than <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">$430 million <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 123, 255);"> in damage was done in the four states.

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Source: http://www.super70s.com/Super70s/Tech/Nature/Disasters/Floods/1977.asp <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">