Blizzards — Winter's Perfect Storm

  A pizza delivery man shields himself from the blizzard conditions pounding New York City and most of the east coast of the U.S. as he waits to cross second Avenue 13 March 1993. New York City is expected to get up to two feet of snow in one of th
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Snowly Cow!
Some called it The Storm of the Century. Others stuck with a modest Blizzard of 1993. Still others went for the comic-con inspired Superstorm '93. Whatever the name, the storm that dumped snow from Alabama, which saw 13" in Birmingham, to Syracuse, NY which boasted three feet of power, and then kicked up dozens of tornadoes across the South, was a monster.

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