Just In
Photos: Remembering the Great Ice Storm of 1976
- Teryl Franklin
- Updated
The Great Ice Storm of March 1976 knocked television stations off the air, caused Madison's reservoirs to dry up and left more than 600,000 Wisconsin residents without power for days.
It may be wishful thinking proclaimed by this road sign in Fitchburg, Wisconsin, because a blizzard probably would not have done as much damage as the March 1976 ice storm that downed this power pole and the electric lines it carried.
JOSEPH W. JACKSON III, STATE JOURNAL ARCHIVES
Mount Horeb High School students help clean up broken limbs on North 2nd Street.
ED STEIN, STATE JOURNAL ARCHIVES
Icicles on a barbed-wire fence in the aftermath of the March 4, 1976, ice storm.
J.D. PATRICK, STATE JOURNAL ARCHIVES
Wires short out on a utility pole at 6209 Bridge Road in Monona, Wisconsin, during the ice storm of March 1976.
BRUCE FRITZ
Cars slide off the road during the Madison ice storm of March 1976.
BRUCE FRITZ
A fence along Wisconsin Highway 73 shows the aftermath of the ice storm of March 1976.
BRUCE FRITZ
The March 1976 ice storm devastated the countryside between Cambridge and Stoughton in eastern Dane County, Wisconsin.
J.D. PATRICK, STATE JOURNAL ARCHIVES
Front page of the Wisconsin State Journal from March 5, 1976.
Page from the Wisconsin State Journal from March 6, 1976.
Front page of the Wisconsin State Journal from March 6, 1976.
Page from the Wisconsin State Journal from March 6, 1976.
Mount Horeb High School students help clean up broken limbs on North 2nd Street.
ED STEIN, STATE JOURNAL ARCHIVES
Icicles on a barbed-wire fence in the aftermath of the March 4, 1976, ice storm.
J.D. PATRICK, STATE JOURNAL ARCHIVES
Front page of the Wisconsin State Journal from March 5, 1976.
Page from the Wisconsin State Journal from March 6, 1976.
Front page of the Wisconsin State Journal from March 6, 1976.
Page from the Wisconsin State Journal from March 6, 1976.
Teryl Franklin
Get email notifications on {{subject}} daily!
Your notification has been saved.
There was a problem saving your notification.
{{description}}
Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items.
Followed notifications
Please log in to use this feature
Log In
Don't have an account? Sign Up Today
Related to this collection
The owners of Rivoli Theatre were planning to commission a mural for a hallway space when a striking piece of history was uncovered.
The weather can be variable in southern Wisconsin around the time of the spring equinox.
It could take several days for power to be restored to some MGE customers, and a small number of Alliant Energy customers may also experience multi-day outages.
Rising temperatures and continued rainfall into Saturday evening should gradually improve conditions.
Freezing drizzle did not develop across much of southern Wisconsin as previously forecast, so a large portion of the advisory was canceled.
Old Man Winter may not have put his feet on the ground quite yet, but he’s certainly been stirring in his icy quarters the last couple weeks, scattering fallen leaves with his glacial breath.
This shouldn't be surprising with meteorological winter ending on Saturday and meteorological spring starting Sunday.
The Groundhog Day Blizzard of 2011 clobbered southern Wisconsin from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2 of that year, officially delivering 18.7 inches of snow…
A blizzard struck the Madison area Feb. 5 and 6, 2008, bringing with it more than 12 inches of snow and high winds, creating treacherous road …
Snow in April is not as strange as you might think. On April 9, 1973, Madison found itself digging out from about 13 inches of snow. Here's a …
On June 8, 1984, an F5 tornado ripped through the Iowa County village of Barneveld, killing nine people and destroying most of the small commu…
A winter storm, which eventually became a blizzard, began shortly after midnight Dec. 3, 1990, and by the time it was over late that evening, …
Here's a look back at what it was like in January 2014 when a historic blast of frigid air courtesy of a weakening in the polar vortex gripped…
Perhaps no other Great Lakes shipwreck has as much notoriety as the ill-fated SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a 729-foot iron ore carrier that sunk to t…
The worst snowstorm thought to ever hit Wisconsin brought two blizzards in a single week in March 1881, with drifts up to 40 feet high. All ra…
The Groundhog Day Blizzard of 2011 clobbered southern Wisconsin from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2 of that year, officially delivering 18.7 inches of snow…
