TODAY  Version 3.7   06/24/94       Copyright 1986, 1994  By Patrick Kincaid   
      
    Today is Friday  January 18, 2013.   
    This is the 18th day of the year, there are 347 days left.   
      
    On this day...   
       In 1857 A great cold storm swept across the Atlantic Seaboard.   
               Snowfall totals of 12 inches were common, whole gales caused   
               shipwrecks and damaged property on islands, and temperatures   
               near zero prevailed from Virginia northward.  Great drifts   
               of snow blocked transportation.  Richmond VA was cut off from   
               Washington DC for a week.   
       In 1973 In Cory Louisiana, a baby was carried by strong tornado   
               winds 300 to 400 yards and received only minor injuries.   
       In 1987 A storm in the south central U.S. blanketed Oklahoma City   
               with eight inches of snow, their highest total since 1948.   
               Snowfall totals in Oklahoma ranged up to 13 inches at Gage,   
               with drifts five feet high.  Roof collapses across the   
               state resulted in seven million dollars damage.   
       In 1988 A storm in the southwestern U.S. produced a 15 to 20 foot   
               surf along the southern coast of California resulting in   
               more than fifty million dollars damage.  A small tornado   
               in Orange County CA lifted a baseball dugout fifteen feet   
               into the air and deposited it in the street, 150 yards away.   
               The same storm also produced 26 inches of snow at Duck Creek   
               UT.   
       In 1989 While fair and mild weather prevailed across the forty-eight   
               states, bitter cold gripped Alaska.  The high temperature for   
               the day at Fairbanks was 30 degrees below zero. Thunderstorms   
               along the western Gulf coast drenched parts of southwest   
               Houston with more than four inches of rain.   
       In 1990 A winter storm produced heavy snow and high winds across the   
               southwestern U.S.  Snowfall totals ranged up to 18 inches at   
               Lake Arrowhead CA and Ashford AZ.  High winds in New Mexico   
               gusted to 100 mph east of Albuquerque.  Unseasonably warm   
               weather continued from Texas to the Atlantic coast.  Twenty   
               cities reported record high temperatures for the date   
               including Roanoke VA with a reading of 71 degrees.   
      
      
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