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2024 Hennepin County All -Jurisdiction Hazard Mitigation Plan <br />Volume 2 — Hazard Inventory <br />• Approximate number of wires down -1600 <br />• Approximate number of poles down -2400 <br />• Extent of delay of service- Average 18 hours for toll and 36 hours for exchange lines out <br />of service. <br />• Remarks: The above covers damage to both Northwestern Bell and Tri-State Telephone <br />Company plant in Minnesota. The greatest damage was in the area about 20 miles east <br />and west of a line from Sandstone to Albert Lea. <br />Jan. 14, 1952. <br />Glaze, sleet and ice storm across Minnesota from St Cloud south into Iowa. 1,100 Northwestern <br />Bell telephone wires down. The Buffalo Ridge in the Pipestone area the hardest hit with % inches <br />of solid ice on Northern State Power wires with icicles to 3 inches. Northwestern Bell reported ice <br />to 1 % inches of ice on their wires in the same area. Thunder and a shower of ice pellets <br />accompanied the storm in New Ulm and Mankato. Minneapolis General Hospital treated 81 <br />victims of falls on icy streets. <br />210 <br />