On this episode of the podcast, we tell you about one of the worst winter storms to ever hit the Appalachian region. Over Thanksgiving weekend of 1950, Pennsylvania and New York saw record flooding, parts of West Virginia saw five feet of snow, and there were tornadoes and heavy rain on the eastern side of the mountains.
Today we tell that story.
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