Word: blizzarding
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...York City's blizzard of '47 (TIME, Jan. 5) was largely a memory by last week; but a lot of loaded snowballs were still being thrown-mostly at the weatherman. The New York Times sternly demanded to know what had happened to forecasts lately ("occasional snow," forsooth, on the day of the 25.8-incher). And what, asked the Times, was being done about...
...waited for his dinner. It was a nasty night outside. Snow swirled heavily about the high, menacing walls of Roy's place of business, the Colorado State Penitentiary, on the edge of town. On the grey stone towers, guards paced uneasily and strained to see through the swirling blizzard...
There aren't many veterans of the blizzard of '88 still in College, and they don't write letters to newspapers asking about Santa Claus; some of them won't even, admit that this was a hell of a snow fall. One grisly octogenarian had remarked on a certain Sunday, "They don't make storms like that any more," but on December 26 he happened to hold up a damp finger in the wind, shattering all his illusions and allusions to the past...
...realize what was happening. It was seeing its heaviest snowfall in Weather Bureau history (76 years). At midnight, 18 hours and 35 minutes after the storm began, the Weather Bureau announced that 25.8 inches had fallen. It was 4.9 inches above the record set in the legendary three-day blizzard...
...only New Yorkers who really seemed downcast by the big snow were members of a highly vocal organization known as "The Blizzard Men of '88." For 59 years they had been making speeches, writing essays and fattening fables about the greatest city's greatest storm. But at week's end they were only talking about the second biggest storm, and nobody was listening...