Aftermath
Looking west along Union Street in the aftermath of February 2, 1976. On that date, Saint John was hit by a great windstorm which quickly became known as the Groundhog Gale. A day or two later, I took some pictures of the damage, but unfortunately this is the best of the bunch. I lacked a decent camera and sufficient historical sense to really get out and do a more comprehensive survey. More importantly, perhaps, I was a young man who had not yet developed a photographer's keen eye for pertinent detail (come to think of it, I'm STILL working on that!). Nowadays, such a disaster would be recorded much more intensively, given the prevalence of cellphone cameras . . . If anyone out there has a really good photo or two of the GG, please share it/them (another 1970s disaster of particular interest to me
is the great Saint John River flood of 1973-----it seems there's hardly ANYTHING about
this on the Internet at present, and yet there must have been competent photographers
along the river who documented the event).
Aftermath
Looking west along Union Street in the aftermath of February 2, 1976. On that date, Saint John was hit by a great windstorm which quickly became known as the Groundhog Gale. A day or two later, I took some pictures of the damage, but unfortunately this is the best of the bunch. I lacked a decent camera and sufficient historical sense to really get out and do a more comprehensive survey. More importantly, perhaps, I was a young man who had not yet developed a photographer's keen eye for pertinent detail (come to think of it, I'm STILL working on that!). Nowadays, such a disaster would be recorded much more intensively, given the prevalence of cellphone cameras . . . If anyone out there has a really good photo or two of the GG, please share it/them (another 1970s disaster of particular interest to me
is the great Saint John River flood of 1973-----it seems there's hardly ANYTHING about
this on the Internet at present, and yet there must have been competent photographers
along the river who documented the event).