New Yorkers woke up on Monday to 10 inches of snow and bitter cold. Due to November gale, there were 19 damaged ships and 250 people killed during the incident. By Johanna Goldberg, Information Services Librarian. The storm paralyzed the East Coast from the Chesapeake Bay to Maine, as well as the Atlantic provinces of Canada. Flashback Facts: NYC’s Great Blizzard of 1888. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! On January 12, 1888, an unexpected blizzard swept across the prairies and claimed 235 lives, most of them children. … My husband started to shovel his way out, through snow as deep as he was tall….It was three weeks before the roads were cleared and the Doctor then made his first visit to our home and congratulated me on the fine new baby who came into this world unaided and alone in the Big Blizzard of 1888 and twenty-six years and six months later left this world in the Wright chemical explosion [an accident at a factory in Elizabeth, NJ that killed three workers3].”. A blizzard referred to as the Armistice Day Blizzard that occurred in 1940 in the Midwest killed 145 people. Temperatures are already cold, but the wind makes the wind chill much colder and skin can freeze much faster. In two days, up to 4 feet of snow fell in affected areas (Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York), causing more than 400 fatalities. (Photo by Buyenlarge/Getty Images), Downtown at 1:30 p.m. on Park Row as people and horse-drawn vehicles struggle to make their way through the snow, as seen from the foot path of the Brooklyn Bridge. When it comes to driving a classic car there are plenty of wonderful choices. Another blizzard occurred in New England on 12 March 1888. The blizzard that occured March 12-14 paralyzed the city with 40" of snow and winds that reached up to 60 miles per hour, creating drifts as high as 50 feet. Published September 19, 1914. ( Log Out / Weather Service defines a blizzard as a storm with winds of more than 35 miles an hour and snow that limits visibility to 500 feet or less. Fire stations were immobilized, and property loss from fire alone was estimated at $25 million. http://www.virtualny.cuny.edu/blizzard/bliz_hp.html, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D00EEDB1438EF32A2575AC1A96F9C946596D6CF. In 1938, fifty years after the blizzard, Samuel Meredith Strong, M.D., “Former President of ‘The Blizzard Men of 1888,’” published The Great Blizzard of 1888, a collection of oral histories and printed articles from those who survived the storm.Below are some selections from the book: 2 Excerpt from an article by Julian Ralph in the New York Sun, September 2, 1933: (Wallace G. Levison/Dahlstrom Collection/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images), Workers dig out the snow from underneath an elevated train line after the blizzard of 1888.
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