In addition to shoveling the snow, people set fires to burn holes in the drifts. The Great White Hurricane gripped the East Coast from the Chesapeake Bay to Maine. Property damage from the storm ...

In addition to shoveling the snow, people set fires to burn holes in the drifts. The Great White Hurricane gripped the East Coast from the Chesapeake Bay to Maine. Property damage from the storm ...

The Great Lakes have produced an immense amount of lake effect snowfall this week, which is fairly common in November and December. In 1913, however, two strong storms converged near the Great ...

The storm, referred to as the “Great Blizzard of 1888” or the “Great White Hurricane,” hit Boston at about 7 a.m. on March 12, 1888, and continued until March 14, according to Boston Globe ...

So stay with us as we mark this anniversary by looking at what they found, share old photos from the storm, and look at some of the ships lost to this “White Hurricane” of the Great Lakes.

Referred to as the Great White Hurricane, the storm disabled the City’s transportation and communications systems. Roads and highways were blocked, train service (both at grade and elevated ...

The Big Blow. The White Hurricane. Freshwater Fury. The Great Lakes storm that spawned all of those nicknames happened from Nov. 7-10, 1913. After it was over, more than a dozen ships and all ...

The New York Herald called the storm the “Great White Hurricane.” In an accompanying article on March 13, the newspaper reported: ”A great white hurricane roared all day through New York ...

So stay with us as we mark this anniversary by looking at what they found, photos from the storm, and a look at some of the ships lost to this "White Hurricane" of the Great Lakes. This photo ...