The blizzard of 1888, or the Great White Hurricane as it has been called, was a monstrous storm that rocked North Eastern America. An estimated 50 inches of snow fell over 4 days from March 11th-15th. 400 people perished in this storm, and 200 of them in New York. Incredible snow, coupled with a cruel cold, and lashing wind was a quite the lethal combination of unusual weather.
In New York a newspaper wrote in regards to the storm; "All the artillery of Europe could not have reduced New York to such an awful condition of helplessness in such short time." The city of New York was completely cut off from all communications due to extensive telegraph lines collapsing, and railways becoming buried under snow.
The storm is still used today as a comparison of weather, and will remain one of the worst disasters of the American North East.
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