Niagara Falls Frozen 1848. Much of the niagara river around the falls was frozen in 1912 an occurrence that resulted in a tragic accident when an ice bridge across the river broke free from its shoring as several people. Strong southwest winds had driven massive amounts of ice to the head of niagara river effectively putting a cork in the bottle.
This past weekend at about midnight on march 29 1848. The day niagara failed. However most of the times the falls only freeze partially.
170 years ago friday an ice jam driven by gale force winds clogged the mouth of the niagara river reducing the river to a trickle and silencing the roar march 30 1848.
An ice damn which formed at fort erie that year caused the flow of water over the falls to stop completely. On this day in 1848 roughly 212 000 cubic feet per second dried to a trickle. No water flows over the great cataract for 30 or 40 hours. It s a bit of a fluke that lives on as a special day in the natural wonder s history.
