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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).

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Uploaded on November 30, 2012
Taken on February 3, 1976