Much was learned from the Schoolhouse Blizzard of 1888. The U.S. Weather Service, then called The Signal Corps (which at the time was a newly formed governmental service run by U.S. soldiers ...

While Nemo stranded cars and trucks throughout the city, the blizzard of 1888 shut down horse-drawn streetcars and railroad service, and took out the telegraph wires. “ A Howling Blizzard,” the ...

The Great Blizzard of 1888, also known as the Great White Hurricane, paralyzed the East Coast from March 11 to 14, as snow fell from 10 to 58 inches in parts of New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts ...

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.

1888, 135 years ago Historic blizzard. 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 ...

To this day, no blizzard has come close to touching the records set by The Blizzard of 1888. The storm and damage thereafter actually inspired the creation of the subway system in NYC and Boston ...

There were, as there often are, two camps: those who believed it started on Sunday, March 11, 1888, and those who were certain it started on Monday, March 12. Someone started the great divide by ...

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 ...

Platte County Historical Society will present “Blizzard of 1888 — The School Children's Blizzard” at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 5, at the Platte County Historical Society Museum’s west building, 2916 ...