1996 Northwest snowstorm
If you lived in Edmonds in 1996 and experienced both the heavy snowstorm and the heavy rains that followed, you may think that winter was probably the worst weather Edmonds had endured.
If you didn’t live here in 1996, snow started to fall on Dec. 26 and continued steadily for two days. At the end of the storm, there was 3 feet of wet snow on the ground in many places.
The weight of the wet snow was enormous, enough to collapse 17 out of the 19 structures covering the boats at the Port of Edmonds marina. When the roofs and supports collapsed, it took 270 out of the 400 boats moored inside to the bottom of the marina.
Besides the marina’s collapses, more than 80 additional roof collapses were reported with a total of more than $500 million in insured losses…