Thursday, December 10, 2009

From Carol Chapman

Her mother had a cousin living in Niagara Falls that year.


She told the family that she and her neighbours woke up in the night feeling something was wrong. It took a while but they finally realized that it was the lack of noise.


They had all become so used to the roar of the falls that the silence was unusual enough to alert their senses. Of course at that time nearly all the houses were near the falls.


Amazing pictures !!! Almost 100 years old.


Can you imagine walking on Niagara falls ???

Posted by Buckles at 12/10/2009 05:43:00 AM

1 comments:

Ole Whitey said...

Early in 1972 we were making a jump from somewhere in New York state to New Philadelphia, Ohio, and it started snowing real bad along I-90. Finally near Buffalo the Highway Patrol waved us off and closed the road.

We stopped at the first motel and the next morning we drove into Niagara Falls. Mary Jane had never seen the falls at all and I had only seen them in the summer (that was the last town we played with Beatty-Cole in 1960 before crossing the border).

Anyway the falls were what I'd call frozen, although not completely- there was some water still getting across but there were these rows of gigantic columns of ice as big around as a house. It was bitter cold and we ran to one of those observation towers to take it all in.

A few months later we played St Catharine's, Ontario, and had the chance to see them light up the falls at night. I'm not sure which sight is prettier, when it's frozen or when it's flowing with full force.

10 December, 2009 15:28

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