March 3

March 3, 1991: .Over 135,000 homes are left without power as an ice storm hits Rochester and surrounding areas with 1.5 inches of freezing rain accumulating over 22 hours.  More than 10,000 trees were destroyed.

 See Also: Rochester's Worst Winter Storms

Sources and Further Reading:

• "An Ice Storm Paralyzes Western and Northern New York", New York Times (March 5, 1991)
• "Impacts from a Major Ice Storm: Street Tree Damage from Rochester, New York", Journal of Arboriculture, 21(3), May 1995