Snowmageddon blasted central Illinois 10 years ago
For days, Peoria awaited a winter wallop. When it hit, the storm pounded the town with a remarkable blinding of whirling snow and swirling winds, accented by the eerily odd crackle of lightning. The storm of the first two days of February 2011 — a monstrous marvel infamously dubbed Snowmageddon ‘11 — left central Illinois overwhelmed in white and exhausted from shoveling. Indeed, in the blasting blizzard's wake, a screaming Journal Star headline succinctly summed up the snowy, blowy impact: "TIME TO DIG DEEP." Snowy afternoon Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011, arrived with Peoria bracing for a bl...
Source: pjstar.com