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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The blizzard of March 1888 disrupted the lives of people in Montgomery County along with the rest of the northeastern United States. The storm killed more than 400 people, including 200 schoolchildren ...

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 ...

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 16th St.

Meteorologists called it a “once in 500-year storm.” The legendary Blizzard of ’88 started the night of March 11 and lasted 72 hours. The forecast was for 50 degrees and light rain. There was more ...

We in Western New York are not the only ones who face occasional severe winter storms. In the three winter periods from December 1885 to March 1888, the United States suffered a series of the worst ...

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 ...

How to stay safe when the snow is coming down. By Camille Baker On March 1, 1888, a buyer for the department store Edward Ridley & Sons in New York City made an error ...