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- Long time residents of Chicago will never forget January 26 and 27:
- The Blizzard of 1967. On those dates, the city experienced
- its worst blizzard on record: an astounding 24 inches of snow fell in
- 29 hours and 8 minutes!
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- Close to 24 million tons of the white stuff paralyzed Chicago, a city
- generally used to the hardships of snowy weather, for several days in
- a row. Cars and buses were stranded all over the city. Trains were
- frozen in and could not make their usual commuter runs, and O'Hare
- International Airport (then called O'Hare Field) was closed for an
- unprecedented three days!
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- THE LINDSAY STORM: FEBRUARY 8-10, 1969
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- The 1969 Lindsay Storm which primarily affected the New York City
- and Boston metropolitan areas, began as an area of low pressure
- that came out of the Rocky Mountains, moved up through the Ohio
- Valley and began to weaken. Meanwhile a secondary area of low
- pressure formed off the Virginia coast, intensified rapidly and moved
- up to the east of Cape Cod.
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- The heaviest snow fell in the New York metro area, the higher
- elevations of western Connecticut and Massachusetts and from the
- Boston metro area up through the White Mountains of New
- Hampshire eastward into southern Maine.
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- The New York City and Boston areas both received an average of 25
- inches of snow each from this storm. The storm is known as the
- Lindsay Storm because Mayor John Lindsay's hopes for reelection
- were dashed when angry voters blamed him for the fact that snow
- removal crews were slow to respond due to inaccurate forecasts
- throughout this entire winter weather event.
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