Before you get too excited about spring being just around the corner, remember that from March 11 to March 14, 1888, one of the most intense blizzards in American history buried New York City under ...
The Blizzard of 1888 began as a deceptively warm January morning across the American Midwest, luring children to school without their coats and farmers back into the fields. Within hours, a deadly ...
Utica's Roscoe Conkling — once a powerful, influential U.S. senator and now a successful corporate lawyer in New York City — looks out a window in his office at Broadway and Wall Street and sees snow.
Beginning March 12, 1888, a destructive blizzard known as the "Great White Hurricane" buried the Northeast with up to 50 inches of snow over the course of three unrelenting days. When the great storm ...
Take a look at some of the major snowstorms and blizzards that have blasted Nebraska. A sudden, fierce blizzard slashed across Nebraska 137 years ago today. Sheritha Jones, World-Herald historian The ...
The advent of a potential blizzard causes me to pause my story of the Musica family. They’ll be back on Thursday. Meanwhile, please consider the following: Whenever anyone talks about snowstorms in ...
Old Man Winter finally broke the streak of 700-plus days last week without an appreciable snowstorm when the white stuff fell, clogging roads, closing schools and making life semi-miserable for those ...
With snowfall reaching 40 - 50 inches and snow drifts between 30 - 40 feet deep, hundreds died. The blizzard that became legendary to New Yorkers caused roughly $20 million in property damage. One ...