Reflections: Historic cold waves hit county
By Evelyn Long - Contributing Columnist
Reading the history of Morrow County, I shiver when I read about the year of 1816, when there was no summer. According to the history I read, there was ice every month and on June 17 a terrible snow storm struck from New England to New York where many travelers froze to death.
According to the Morrow County History book, crops could never be planted that year because of the extreme cold and snow.
Since then we have had “cold waves” but nothing like the winter of 1816. I touched on winter storms a few weeks ago but while going through my pages of information, my memory was jogged when I read about the winters of both 1976-77 and 1977-78 the two coldest winters recorded in Ohio.