Here are the photos and stories — and some things you may not know — about the Blizzard of '78. ... Winds gusting up to 100 miles per hour caused high snow drifts that nearly buried some homes.

See photos of residents digging out from the snow. Californians in the Sierra Nevada mountains were battered by feet of snow and hurricane force winds over the weekend, closing highways.

Readers captured photos of cars buried under four feet of snow and recounted the moments from the Blizzard of ‘78 that have stuck with them decades later.

The blizzard is the strongest that California has seen so far this year. In the last 48 hours, the storm has dumped between 24 and 42 inches across the mountains, according to Sara Purdue, a ...

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On Jan. 10, 1975, Omaha was crippled by a blizzard, part of a larger storm that suffocated the Midwest in wind and snow and that hurled tornadoes across the southeast.

Take a look at photos as Blizzard warning hits the Omaha area on March 4th, 2025. A traffic light is down near 120th and Pacific Streets after a blizzard in Omaha on Wednesday, March 5, 2025 ...

With snowfall reaching 40 - 50 inches and snow drifts between 30 - 40 feet deep, hundreds died. The blizzard that became legendary to New Yorkers caused roughly $20 million in property damage. One ...

The Blizzard of '78 was a catastrophic storm that killed about 100 people and injured 4,500 more — and caused more than $500 million in damage — when it slammed into Northeastern states.