(PhillyHistory)This year, local meteorologists are predicting a very snowy winter for Philadelphia. With such a forecast looming in the future, snow is probably the last thing that residents of this city want to think about. It is likely that Philadelphians did not want to think about the prospect of snow in 1914 either, especially as spring was nearing.

However, March 2 and into the early morning of March 3, 1914, the snow was practically all people were talking about. On that night, a storm blew in from the Atlantic Coast, causing great troubles in New York and Camden. It did not spare Philadelphia from the problems of frozen precipitation either.

In New York, winds of up to 72 miles per hour were reported to accompany the storm as it made its way through the region. By the end, it dropped only 7 inches of snow in the Philadelphia area, however combined with the wind and the snow remaining from a snowstorm the previous week, drifts of 6 to 10 feet in some areas occurred. These conditions shut down the city, cutting off communications with neighboring areas as well as the influx of food from nearby farms. The blizzard was particularly destructive across the river in Camden, where it was reported that:

fierce winds from the northwest whipped through the street, tearing off roofs, blowing down

By Brendan Kain

Special to the NEWS

As a Boy Scout from Gloucester City, I usually do not get on a bus at midnight. But I, and the rest of Troop 231, could not be late for the 2010 National Scout Jamboree.

photo: President Bush Addresses the 2005 National Scout Jamboree

The six-and-a-half hour bus ride to Fort A. P. Hill, Virginia, was uninterrupted except for a 90-minute breakfast stop at Denny’s.

We arrived before 8 a.m., but had to wait a while before we could unload our trailer of supplies and begin setup. We broke into patrols and began setting up tables, tents, chuck boxes and other equipment.

After that we ate lunch.

Then we began building our gateway by screwing logs together and standing them up in buckets of cement. Each scout in the troop created wood circles that were hung on it.

Also hung were wood signs saying \”Troop 231, SNJC\” (Southern New Jersey Council).

After the gateway was finished, I got on a bus and headed toward the Hometown News tent to learn how to be a Jamboree News Correspondent.

I went through training and got my press badge, and met another correspondent, who has an international guest all the way from Korea.

After that I went back to camp and had dinner. Next I went to an arena and watched the Baltimore Ravens cheerleaders.

Finally, I went to bed and wondered about all the other adventures I will have here at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree.

Oaklyn VFW 5 Manor Ave. Oaklyn, NJ 08107

Please come out to welcome home HN3 Joe Malandro from serving in Afghanistan.

Joe graduated from Haddon Twp. High School 2003. He is 25 yrs old. Joe has been in the military for 6 years.

He first joined the Navy for educational opportunities.

He did boot camp @ Great Lakes followed by Corp School @ Great Lakes.

First assignment was Bethesda Naval Hospital in MD.

Joe then deployed to Djoubouti, Africa with a Marine Sniper unit.

When he returned he decided he was not fulfilling his wartime commitment working in Labor & Delivery at Bethesda, so he then decided to go \”green side\” and went to Camp Lejuene where he went through boot camp…again.

He is now attached to the 1^st Battalion 9^th Marines (The Walking Dead) and has completed 2 tours with them. One in Iraq (where he missed the birth of his first son) and the current one on USS Ashland LSD 48.

They have spent a lot of their time training Jordon soldiers.

They also spend the first month in Haiti.

(10/P79) TRENTON * The Department of Environmental Protection is investigation a major wash-up of dead fish along the Delaware Bay in Cape May County. The cause of the die-off is not known and is under investigation.
The Division of Fish and Wildlife, the Bureau of Marine Water Monitoring and the Bureau of Emergency Response are working with local officials to evaluate the wash-up of menhaden that appears to be encompassing a large stretch of the Delaware Bay shoreline. The fish appear to be exclusively small menhaden, also known as peanut bunker.

The Bureau of Marine Water Monitoring