Keywords: ice storm in ME
Item 6061
Ice storm damage, Portland, 1886
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1886-01-28 Location: Portland Media: Albumen print
Item 6062
Oxford Street after ice storm, Portland, 1886
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1886-02-03 Location: Portland Media: Albumen print
Exhibit
A Portland newspaper wrote about an ice storm of January 28, 1886 saying, "The city of Portland was visited yesterday by the most inconvenient storm of the season."
Exhibit
The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Comparisons
"In the ice storm in Canada they lost their power due to a layer of ice weighing down the power lines. The ice kept coming until the wire snaps."
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm In Hallowell
"Ice Storm In Hallowell Ice Storm In Hallowell by Ashley Boerner and Tiffiny McCollett I don’t like ice storms that much."
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
