The year of the Great Blackout

On Oct 15 1784 at around 3.15 pm it became exceptionally overcast, so much  so that the air over the countryside became a brilliant yellow, then"R there were some

gusts of wind and rain which continued for a good portion of the night,with lots of thunder  followed by lightning something especially surprising since there had been

a deep freeze on the night before. The next day ,Sunday the morning air was very calm with a thick fog which lasted until 10 am at which time a wind from the East began

to break it up.About a half hour later ,it became so dark  that we could not read without a candle,this was followed by a violent wind and then thunder and lightning after which

everything seemed to clear up a bit,but from noon to 3pm it became so dark again that the priests were forced to interupt their masses until the church candles were lit; it was as

dark then as it would ordinairly have been at midnight whenever there is no moon. It should be noted that each period of darkness were both followed and preceeded by rain, lightning

and thunder. We noted that there were two currents of air running in opposite directions in the atmosphere, the upper current was pushing a stretch of  luminous clouds towards the

northeast and the other moved some thick dark clouds towards the southwest at a fast pace and the rains that fell seemed as black as ink.

We attributed this freakish event to the smoke from a fire in some sulphur mines in some of our neighbouring areas which had thickened the air and chased its thickened clouds towards

our part of the country. the darkness was seen as far away as Niagara, if not further. source" Recollections of Nicholas Gaspard Boisseau, Notary"

I hope you liked this little story so as you can see back in 1784 they too had bad weather.

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