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15 Photos of Monster Blizzards

A look back at harrowing snowpocalypses of yore
Related: Blizzards

By SKYE Editors Feb 07, 2013

  • PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images
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    Rental cars are buried deep in snow in an auxiliary lot at Dulles International Airport on Feb. 8, 2010, days after a record snowstorm hit Washington, D.C.

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  • AP Photo/Craig Ruttle
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    People continue to dig out their cars along 72nd Street in New York Dec. 27, 2010, in the wake of a powerful East Coast blizzard.

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  • Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images
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    On Third Street in downtown Frederick, Md., tree limbs and power lines are downed by heavy snow as the blizzard of 2010 dumped more than 2 feet of snow in the area.

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  • Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images
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    A city bus passes a skier on Michigan Avenue during a snowstorm in Chicago, Ill., on Feb. 2, 2011. The blizzard dumped more than 20 inches of snow on the city, making it the third largest snowfall recorded in the Chicago's history. 

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  • Tim Boyle/Newsmakers
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    A United Airlines aircraft sits with its windshield covered with snow and ice while parked at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport in near-whiteout conditions Dec. 11, 2000.

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  • AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato
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    Hundreds of cars are seen stranded on Lake Shore Drive on Feb. 2, 2011, in Chicago after a winter blizzard of historic proportions trapped drivers for up to 12 hours overnight on the city's lakeshore thoroughfare. 

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  • Andrew Burton/Getty Images
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    David Karnovsky, general counsel for the New York City Department of City Planning, cross country skis down West 73rd Street towards Central Park on Dec. 27, 2010, in New York City.

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  • AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast
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    A commuter waits under heat lamps on an elevated train track during a blizzard on Feb. 2, 2011, in Chicago.

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  • AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli
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    Colgate University football players break from the huddle under blizzard-like conditions during a playoff game in Hamilton, N.Y., Nov. 29, 2003.

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  • AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
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    As a another winter blizzard hits the nation's capital, people make their way through downtown streets in whiteout conditions Feb. 10, 2010, in Washington.

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    People walk past Radio City Music Hall in New York City during December 2010's Snowpocalypse.

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  • AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
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    Marine Lt. Col. Chester McMillon works to dig a car out of the snow along Route 15 after a blizzard in York Springs, Pa., Feb. 11, 2010.

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  • AP Photo/Bill Ross
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    A truck navigates through the snow-covered street as a local resident digs her car out of the snow on Detroit Street in Denver, Colo., March, 19, 2003.

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  • AP Photo/Jessica Hill
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    A flag pokes above the snow in around mounds of covered grave markers in Veterans Memorial Field in East Hartford, Conn., after another winter storm, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011.

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  • AP Photo/Journal Inquirer Jim Michaud
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    A man had to apply brute force to get his snow blower through a pile of snow while tunneling through a sidewalk he was clearing in East Hartford, Conn. on January 27, 2011. 

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  • MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images
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    A couple walks their dog during a blizzard Feb. 10, 2010, in Washington, D.C.

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da1bearfan

global warming!
Yea right

May 01 2013 at 7:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Thayer Jordan

Blizzard of 93 Me and a friend were doing volunteer work on Mt. Mitchell State Park, March 113, or 14th, when the blizzard hit, and we got stranded up their. By the time it was all finished on the 18th, there was 56 inche's of snow, plus fifteen foot drifts. Still one of the biggest snowfalls in recent memory, although the winter of 77 did come close.

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One Bad Bitch

'78 blizzard in ohio is the last big one we've had here

March 05 2013 at 9:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Marie

Hi, Down in Florida remembering 1966 storm. People were cross countrky skiing on Addison Street in Chicago. Few knew about cross country skiing then. People helped each other with food and milk supplies. Had a one year old baby then and he loved just looking out the picture window in our 2nd floor two flat window. Good memories. For those who were stranded getting home, I am sure not the same kind of memory! Many were out all night trying to get home. Hope it isn't that bad and now people know to leave work early when a storm is a threat..

March 05 2013 at 6:49 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
michael

From CT.
1966,1969,1973 (ice storm ) 1978 (Larry ) 1980, 1986,1996,2011 ( Oct ),2013. Did I miss any ? Be safe and stay home off the roads.

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spaceguy212

anyone remember ny-nj blizzard on Christmas eve 1966

February 21 2013 at 7:56 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Reply
rswambo

I bearly remember the 67 blizzard in chicago. I was 5. I have 3 older siblings my 2 sisters told my brother " you really should go out and start shoveling so dad doesn't need to do it." Next thing you know he is screaming for help. He fell through a drift. Thank G-D the older boys down the st. heard him and dug him out

February 21 2013 at 7:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Johann

What about the Great Chicago Blizzard of 1967? That was worse than the 2011 blizzard!

February 21 2013 at 5:16 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Reply
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pjj1012

67? Yep! Lotsa folks don;t remember that one, 46 years ago, ya know....

February 22 2013 at 12:36 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Reply
Carole

I surely remember the '67 blizzard in Chicago. We lived in a brick two story house and the snow was half-way up the front room windows, our garbage cans were completely covered and you could only see the top third of our garage.

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dsmetzger

oh yeah.... buffalo the blizzard of 78 and the year the Chesapeake Bay froze over!!!!

February 20 2013 at 10:34 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Reply
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Nick

That blizzard was in '77. The New England states had theirs in '78.

February 21 2013 at 11:41 AM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Reply
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dsmetzger

Yeah, you're right.... it WAS 1977. It was so long ago I got my years hosed up! I moved from Western NY to Washington DC that year and was accused of bringing the bad weather with me. :0)

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nan2687

Love It, can't wait....living in Omaha now, but nothing beats the blizzard in Ohio and Michigan (was living there at the time) of 1978, living in Mi in a basement apt, with huge front windows and the snow covered all that and higher, so it looked like midnight anytime of the day for a week!! It always brings out the best in people!!!

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