# The Niagara River ran dry once. **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [August 28, 2009, 7:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-niagara-river-ran-dry-once/72743 "2009-08-28T07:33:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![9c1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/9c1/32/7392_2.png) [@9c1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/9c1)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 9:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-niagara-river-ran-dry-once/72743/21 "2009-08-28T09:27:01Z")
> [@OfficerK](#): > > Can you rehost the pics I can’t see them > > :lol: Seriously. Nobody took any pictures of this? There have to be pics somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Avatar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/avatar/32/5076_2.png) [@Avatar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Avatar)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 9:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-niagara-river-ran-dry-once/72743/22 "2009-08-28T09:30:46Z")
Pic… ![http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/niagrafalls.jpg](http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/niagrafalls.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 9:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-niagara-river-ran-dry-once/72743/23 "2009-08-28T09:34:58Z")
PS: [scribd.com](http://scribd.com) sucks. ---
**Author:** ![JUICEDSS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/juicedss/32/7185_2.png) [@JUICEDSS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JUICEDSS)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 9:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-niagara-river-ran-dry-once/72743/24 "2009-08-28T09:51:51Z")
This is what I was talking about. The Falls was diverted in 1969. I was 6 for the record… ![http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Dryniagara.jpg](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Dryniagara.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Southtowns27](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/southtowns27/32/5002_2.png) [@Southtowns27](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Southtowns27)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 9:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-niagara-river-ran-dry-once/72743/25 "2009-08-28T09:53:47Z")
Cool pic Butch. It seems that there’d be a pic somewhere from 1848… ---
**Author:** ![JUICEDSS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/juicedss/32/7185_2.png) [@JUICEDSS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JUICEDSS)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 9:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-niagara-river-ran-dry-once/72743/26 "2009-08-28T09:57:14Z")
> [@Southtowns27](#): > > Cool pic Butch. It seems that there’d be a pic somewhere from 1848… There is but I can’t find it. I saw it years ago. It could have been a painting maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Skurge](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/skurge/32/7285_2.png) [@Skurge](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Skurge)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 10:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-niagara-river-ran-dry-once/72743/27 "2009-08-28T10:05:21Z")
> [@JayS](#): > > Wonder if it will ever happen again? I doubt the ice boom could hold back the kind of storm that jammed the river back then. > > Not that our nanny state would ever allow anyone to walk around the dry riverbed now. I would be the first one down there to see it, thats for sure 🙂 > [@Fry](#): > > More than double what goes over it now, as the rest is diverted for hydro power according to the site I linked. > > I didn’t realize we manually let more water over the falls during the day for tourists and cut it in half at night for more hydro power. That’s a bit mind bottling. 😛 its crazy actually how much the water level can change in an hour below the falls, this summer i was down there…standing in the same area I usually hang out in…a good 3 feet above the water, 1 hour later…i would be up to my knees or more in rapids, crazy stuff but yea, at night, the water drops a few feet down there, not until it gets closer to midnight though ---
**Author:** ![Avatar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/avatar/32/5076_2.png) [@Avatar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Avatar)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 10:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-niagara-river-ran-dry-once/72743/28 "2009-08-28T10:09:36Z")
> [@Southtowns27](#): > > Cool pic Butch. It seems that there’d be a pic somewhere from 1848… There is. I posted it… ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 10:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-niagara-river-ran-dry-once/72743/29 "2009-08-28T10:12:40Z")
Photography was more or less just an experimental thing until the 1850’s or so. The article said that the river was only dry for about 30 hours, so I’m not surprised that nobody manged to capture an image of it. EDIT: ORLY there’s a pic? Cool. The hotlink didn’t work, but I followed the link and saw it. Is that really of the time that the river rank dry? ---
**Author:** ![Avatar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/avatar/32/5076_2.png) [@Avatar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Avatar)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 10:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-niagara-river-ran-dry-once/72743/30 "2009-08-28T10:16:04Z")
Are you guys blind? Source: [http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/niagara-falls-frozen-1848.html](http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/niagara-falls-frozen-1848.html) LOL nevermind, I can’t read… ---
**Author:** ![38stang](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/38stang/32/7479_2.png) [@38stang](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/38stang)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 10:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-niagara-river-ran-dry-once/72743/31 "2009-08-28T10:28:55Z")
thats an awesome pic! ---
**Author:** ![LUKE\_L](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/luke_l/32/7462_2.png) [@LUKE\_L](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LUKE_L)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 10:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-niagara-river-ran-dry-once/72743/32 "2009-08-28T10:29:56Z")
![http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/3830/niag1hn4.jpg](http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/3830/niag1hn4.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 10:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-niagara-river-ran-dry-once/72743/33 "2009-08-28T10:35:28Z")
> [@Avatar](#): > > Are you guys blind? > > Source: [http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/niagara-falls-frozen-1848.html](http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/niagara-falls-frozen-1848.html) > > LOL nevermind, I can’t read… I guess that pic is on display at a niagara falls library. They’re not sure if it’s actually of the ice jam in 1848 or a time when the falls just mostly froze back in 1912. Either way, cool stuff. Too bad global warming will keep us from ever getting to walk around the riverbed. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Southtowns27](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/southtowns27/32/5002_2.png) [@Southtowns27](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Southtowns27)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 10:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-niagara-river-ran-dry-once/72743/34 "2009-08-28T10:39:39Z")
In 1848 when the ice jam occurred at the mouth of the river it was 46 degrees out. Don’t forget it was almost April. The temperature rose to 64 degrees and the wind changed direction thus releasing the ice jam a day later. So, no the falls wouldn’t have been frozen at that time, just dry. ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 10:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-niagara-river-ran-dry-once/72743/35 "2009-08-28T10:41:29Z")
Dude, you should write to snopes. That makes perfect sense but they said it’s inconclusive about whether or not that pic is from 1848. You win! ---
**Author:** ![JUICEDSS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/juicedss/32/7185_2.png) [@JUICEDSS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JUICEDSS)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 11:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-niagara-river-ran-dry-once/72743/36 "2009-08-28T11:01:19Z")
> [@LUKE\_L](#): > Not the pic I saw before. You can still see water falling in that one. The one I saw had a dry river. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 11:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-niagara-river-ran-dry-once/72743/37 "2009-08-28T11:11:27Z")
> [@66impalass](#): > > Hey, just because you were around for both of these occurrences doesn’t mean its not interesting for those of us that don’t remember the Wright brothers first test flight :wiggle: Woah, I barely made WOODSTOCK by a few short months. I was not around for JFK which was years earlier. lol. ---
**Author:** ![Spam16v](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/spam16v/32/5287_2.png) [@Spam16v](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Spam16v)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 11:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-niagara-river-ran-dry-once/72743/38 "2009-08-28T11:26:40Z")
> [@Blue Eyed Devil](#): > > I was not around for JFK which was years earlier. lol. just always remember… BACK and to the left… BACK and to the left… ---
**Author:** ![brilliantyellowg60](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6f9a4e/32.png) [@brilliantyellowg60](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/brilliantyellowg60)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 1:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-niagara-river-ran-dry-once/72743/39 "2009-08-28T13:21:02Z")
here is pic from 1911 when it froze never heard about the 1848 thing, pretty cool ![http://boldt.us/5863-2/niagara_falls_1911](http://boldt.us/5863-2/niagara_falls_1911) ---
**Author:** ![Geehee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geehee/32/7238_2.png) [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 1:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-niagara-river-ran-dry-once/72743/40 "2009-08-28T13:25:00Z")
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