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  2. 1967 Chicago blizzard - Wikipedia

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    Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley ordered city workers to clear city streets around the clock and asked citizens for help. [7] On Friday, the city was virtually shut down and area schools were closed. [6] Chicago's fleet of 500 snow plows and 2,500 workers was out in force, and additional snow removal equipment was sent from Iowa, Wisconsin and ...

  3. List of major snow and ice events in the United States

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    Blizzard — 1922 January 27–29 — — Blizzard Category 5 1940 November 10–12: 27 inches (69 cm) 971 hPa (28.7 inHg) Blizzard — 1944 December 10-13: 36 inches (91 cm) — Storm Category 3 1947 December 25–26: 26.4 inches (67 cm) — Blizzard Category 3 1950 November 24–30: 57 inches (140 cm) 978 hPa (28.9 inHg) Blizzard Category 5 1952

  4. Cold wave - Wikipedia

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    1969 Northwest North American cold wave – December 1968 and January 1969 saw record cold and snow in the Pacific Northwest and Southern BC. Vancouver, BC recorded its coldest temperature on record of −23.3 °C (−9.9 °F) on January 23, 1969, and −18.3 °C (−0.9 °F) at the airport on December 29, 1968.

  5. List of disasters in the United States by death toll - Wikipedia

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    1967 Chicago blizzard: Winter storm Midwestern United States: 26 deaths in Chicago 59–67 1856 Great Train Wreck of 1856: Accident – railroad Fort Washington, Pennsylvania: 59 1908 Hanna Mine disasters: Accident – coal mine Carbon County, Wyoming: 59 1957 May 1957 Central Plains tornado outbreak sequence: Tornado outbreak sequence

  6. 'It was literally pouring snow': On this one fateful ... - AOL

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    Snow accumulates inside of a bus as a bus that was stranded on Lake Shore Drive Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011 in Chicago. A winter blizzard of historic proportions wobbled an otherwise snow-tough ...

  7. Category:Start-Class Non-tropical storm articles - Wikipedia

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  8. 'We finally excised the ghosts of 1968': This time, Chicago ...

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    Still, for months, many pundits predicted a Democratic National Convention in Chicago this year would devolve into a scene out of 1968’s Vietnam era convention held in the city with days of ...

  9. 'Snow King' Blizzard, Arctic outbreak still unmatched 123 ...

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    The wrath of the blizzard pummeled the mid-Atlantic between Feb. 11 and Feb. 14, 1899, with 20 to 30 inches of snow accumulating from central Virginia to western Connecticut, including 20.5 inches ...