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Twenty-five years ago, on July 15, 1995, a crazy storm hit the Adirondacks.
We posted this 2011 story from the Almanack archive on the anniversary of the microburst on Wednesday, and readers chimed in with their own memories of the storm: https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2011/07/extreme-adirondacks-surviving-the-1995-microburst.html.
Here’s another one from 2009 about the storm, also known as the Great Adirondack Blowdown: https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2009/07/anniversary-of-the-great-adirondack-blowdown-of-1995.html
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My family and I were in a hotel in Lake Placid that night. The thing I remember most about the storm was on the drive home the next day. Route 30 from Tupper Lake to Long Lake was one gigantic blowdown, with more trees down than I had seen in my entire life before the storm. Absolutely unreal. That’s it!