In March 1888 a blizzard swept through the east coast of the United States

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from Chesapeake Bay to Canada, and within 72 hours dropped up to fifty inches of snow with wind gusts up to 80 mph leaving snow drifts upwards of thirty feet. It was called the "Great White Blizzard."

This image is of an unidentified young man posing in a shoveled area on Madison Avenue and 40th Street, New York City. Lyman Woodman, a farmhand in Barre Plains, Mass wrote this about the blizzard: "14. Shovel snow ½ day. Snow sticks to shovel and acts mean. Some big drifts 6 or 7 ft. deep. 15. Shovel snow. Road broke from Hamilton's to town. No pay for shoveling."

View this image closer up and read more first-hand accounts of the Great White Blizzard of 1888 here: https://bit.ly/3JPqa3H
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2. PBS The Great Blizzard of 49

Worth the hour of time to watch.

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3. Thanks!

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4. In 1888 a blizzard swept through the Plains States.

It was called the Schoolchildren's Blizzard.