On This Day in Telephone History November 27TH 1921 - Beginning of a period of exceptionally heavy sleet storms in the winter of 1921·1922. They affected the New England states, Minnesota, Nebraska, North and South Carolina. Michigan and Wisconsin had a disastrous storm Feb. 21·23, 1922, and Michigan had a second storm on March 29. Overall cost of repair was about $7,500,000. The Ice weighed 800 pounds per wire between telephone poles and was 3 inches in diameter.

On This Day in Telephone History November 27TH 1921

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On This Day in Telephone History November 27TH 1921 – Beginning of a period of exceptionally heavy sleet storms in the winter of 1921·1922. They affected the New England states, Minnesota, Nebraska, North and South Carolina. Michigan and Wisconsin had a disastrous storm Feb. 21·23, 1922, and Michigan had a second storm on March 29. Overall cost of repair was about $7,500,000.