ICE STORM: Years from now, people will still be talking about the President's Day weekend ice storm of 2003. The Blizzard of 2003, also known as the Presidents' Day Storm II or simply PDII, was an historic and record-breaking snowstorm on the East Coast of the United States and Canada, which lasted from February 14 to February 19, 2003.It spread heavy snow across the major cities of the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states, making it the defining snowstorm of the very snowy winter of 2002-2003. If the ice storm was not enough, mother nature gave us a one-two punch during that first week of April. A historic snowstorm struck the Ohio Valley of the United States, as well as Ontario in Canada, on December 22 and December 23 and is not the same storm that led to snow in Texas on Christmas Eve.It lasted roughly 30 hours, and brought snowfall amounts up to 29 inches (74 cm) to portions of the Midwestern United States. It wasn’t a very merry Christmas for most central Ohioans 14 years ago.An ice storm that struck the region on Dec. 23, 2004, left more than 400,000 customers without power.Snow and … Weather-related deaths included two in Illinois, one in Nebraska, six in West Virginia, six in Missouri, one in Ohio, one in New Jersey and four in Iowa. Another storm moved up the ohio valley on the 7th and dumped generally 3 - 6 inches of snow over extreme Southeast Lower Michigan. This snow made April the 10th snowiest April on record at Detroit. It's a nightmare down here,'' said Kimberly Carver, director of Ohio's Scioto County Emergency Management Agency. public information statement national weather service wilmington oh 1100 pm est sun feb 16 2003 ...significant winter storm continues over the ohio valley... a combination of snow...sleet and freezing rain continue across the region tonight. ``It's by far the worst ice storm that we've had in decades.