March 5th 1995 will be remembered in California for the devastating and deadly La Conchita mudslide that claimed the lives of six people and did more than three billion dollars in damage.

Floodwaters washed out a stretch of interstate five -- closing it for over a week.

10,000 homes were damaged or destroyed.

Northwest Florida received something normally reserved for northern states on March 6th 1954.

Snow -- and lots of it!

4 inches fell at the Milton experimental station near Pensacola.

That set the state's all time record for 24-hour snow accumulation.

The Ash Wednesday storm in 1962 began a ferocious attack on the U.S. East Coast.

For nearly three days -- the storm ripped the east coast from South Carolina to New England -- wiping out entire beach communities.

Three miles of boardwalk were wiped out in ocean city Maryland.

The death toll reached 40.

Damage totaled 500 million dollars.

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