My favorite detail of "The Great Snow Storm of 1888," is that it took the drafting of "five yoke of oxen" to clear the roads in Stamford. (That's 10 oxen for you yokels). Trains were paralyzed. There ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New York Historical Society Museum and Library A blizzard can still shut down a city or region. But imagine a storm's impact if it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive winter storm has dumped more than a foot of snow across several states in the Northeast. Parts of New Jersey and New ...

A blizzard can still shut down a city or region. But imagine a storm's impact if it happened before the basic weather forecast infrastructure (satellites, computer forecast models) we take for granted ...