MARYLAND MY MARYLAND MARYLAND DEEP FREEZES 1976-77 THE CHESAPEAKE BAY FREEZE ANNAPOLIS AND BALTIMORE, MARYLAND

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Freeze (Please view this video)


I remember this very well. We like others drove down to Sandy Point State Park to walk out on to the froze over Chesapeake Bay. You could actually walk under the Bay Bridge on ice. It was bitter cold!


The Baltimore area suffered through one of its most severe winters in 1976-1977. Ice practically forced the closing of the Port of Baltimore; icebergs (or, more precisely, icefloes) showed up in the Chesapeake Bay and Coast Guard ice cutters were called in to keep rivers navigable.Jan 31, 2014.


"Big Freeze” of 1976-1977.
It was a freeze so severe that parts of the Chesapeake Bay froze. Areas on the Eastern Shore of Maryland saw ice a foot thick, and the entire coast dealt with some of the coldest conditions in more than 50 years.
Here, closer to home, the Surry Nuclear Power Plant was forced to close because ice clogged its water intake.
The low temperature for the month of January dropped down to six degrees one day in Norfolk, and the entire month hovered around 20 to 30 degrees.

The Great Freeze Of 1977: Remembering The Chesapeake Bay’s Mini Ice Age
Author: Alex DeMetrick

February 4, 2014 at 8:40 pm
BALTIMORE (WJZ)— If you’re looking for some feel-good warmth this winter, all you have to do is look back to when it was really cold.
Alex DeMetrick reports 1977 was the year Maryland was locked in a brutal deep freeze.
This winter has brought icebreakers back onto the Chesapeake.
It’s the first time in years state and Coast Guard vessels have been needed to grind out a little open water for other boats.
“Historically, this is one of the colder winters for the Chesapeake Bay,” said a Coast Guard crewman.
But history has a way of topping itself. Maybe you remember 1977.
“That was a brutal winter. We had something like 58 straight days of below freezing temperatures between mid-December and mid-February,” said Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum chief curator Pete Lesher.

You can Google a glimpse of what those temperatures did to the bay. In 1977, it froze solid enough to walk across–a costly novelty.

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