It Could Be Worse: Seven of New York’s All-Time Biggest Snow Storms
The Blizzard of 1947
For whatever reason, after the fiasco in 1888, the going wisdom was that there could never again be a storm that bad. And for a long time, there really wasn’t! But then the blizzard of 1947 hit, bringing with it 26.4 inches of snow that would set the city’s record for decades to come. The subway shut down, tons of cars were buried or stranded, and it was all made much worse by the fact that no one really saw it coming. Some dizzying statistics: 106,000,000 tons of snow removed, 9,800 autos had to be dug out of great snow mounds, and 18,000 men were hired to rid New York of its countless drifts.”