Results: There's Snow Business Like Snow Business
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While many in the U.S. north east are digging out from the biggest snow storm in recent years (largest amount 40" in West Virginia) , it pales in comparison to some storms--small comfort to those knee-deep in the freezing cold white stuff right now! Has your area ever experienced what you recall as "the blizzard of a lifetime"?
Many times (many lifetimes...?)
35%
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722 votes
Once
21%
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440 votes
Never to my knowledge
16%
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334 votes
Live in an area that gets little or no snow
13%
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273 votes
N/A
14%
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300 votes
Other (please specify)
1%
•
16 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| 0.19% | 4 | |
| deep snow is rare here. | 0.05% | 1 |
| the place I grew up did.. Chicago, blizzard of '79 | 0.05% | 1 |
| idk | 0.05% | 1 |
| We have snow in Canada, but not the flooding very often. | 0.05% | 1 |
| I live in teh snw belt am used to large amounts of snow, Chicago winter of 65/66 | 0.05% | 1 |
| I live in Miami | 0.05% | 1 |
| Not my current area, but but places I have lived in the past. | 0.05% | 1 |
| we in the mountains of NC are still digging out; can't get out of our house yet | 0.05% | 1 |
| not sure | 0.05% | 1 |
| When I lived in upstate NY is snowed from Sept 15 to May 15 1977/78 no where to put it. Very little break from it. | 0.05% | 1 |
| before i was born | 0.05% | 1 |
| I now live in Texas but I used to live in NY | 0.05% | 1 |
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Imagine living through some of these horrid storms...how many of you either remember these, or have heard stories? The Eastern Canadian Blizzard of 1971 -- Quebec and Ontario, Canada--dumping a foot and a half (45.7 cm) of snow on Montreal and more than two feet (61 cm) elsewhere in the region, combined with frigid temperatures and high winds
16%
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329 votes
The Blizzard of 1967 - Midwestern U.S.--Snow totals topped 2 feet (61 cm), and winds exceeded 50 mph (80.5 kph). Sadly, the storm left 76 dead -- 26 in Chicago alone
13%
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267 votes
The Buffalo Blizzard of 1977-- frigid temperatures and heavy snow, compounded with an already huge amount of snow on the ground left Buffalo with a total of 199.4 inches of snow that season
13%
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268 votes
Lhunze County, Tibet -- 2008--average snow depth of 59 inches (1.5 m). Some villages experienced continuous snow for 36 hours, dropping five or six feet (1.52 or 1.83 m) of snow on the ground
4%
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83 votes
The Storm of the Century, 1993 -- Eastern United States--March snowstorm affected parts of 26 states and some provinces, reaching more areas than any other storm system
25%
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526 votes
Mount Shasta, Calif. -- 1959--189 inches (4.8 m) of snow recorded at the Mount Shasta Ski Bowl is the largest snowfall from a single storm in North America
2%
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52 votes
None
48%
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997 votes
Other (please specify)
3%
•
70 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| 0.54% | 14 | |
| 1978 | 0.12% | 3 |
| Blizzards of 1966 and 1986 in Winnipeg, MB Canada | 0.04% | 1 |
| boston 1978, boston 1982, mpls 1991 | 0.04% | 1 |
| ice storm in Toronto | 0.04% | 1 |
| blizzard of 1978 | 0.04% | 1 |
| snowmaggedon | 0.04% | 1 |
| I live in a snow belt in Canada. Shutting down the city due to inability to drive happens every few years | 0.04% | 1 |
| One in the '50's and one in the '90's in southeastern Canada | 0.04% | 1 |
| 1996 30 inches Pa | 0.04% | 1 |
| I am from Alaska they don't even close the schools down till -60 | 0.04% | 1 |
| 2014 | 0.04% | 1 |
| Chicago 1979 | 0.04% | 1 |
| 1976 Ohio, Feb 5, 6 1993 Virginia, 2010 Virginia, 2016 Virginia weather is generally mild in the winter in Virginia, but when comes it usually hits hard. | 0.04% | 1 |
| 1977 midwest blizzard | 0.04% | 1 |
| BLizzard of 1996 Victoria BC | 0.04% | 1 |
| 1966 | 0.04% | 1 |
| hurricane katrina | 0.04% | 1 |
| On the East Coast of Canada, winter/snow/blizzards are one of our main seasons followed by construction. | 0.04% | 1 |
| ice storm 1998 ontario/quebec 2007 storm ontario/quebec | 0.04% | 1 |
| only bad bad hurricanes and typhoons in Japan | 0.04% | 1 |
| not sure | 0.04% | 1 |
| Denver Blizzard of 1982 | 0.04% | 1 |
| bliz of 1996 east coast of usa | 0.04% | 1 |
| lots of tremendous snow totals, where i live averages 220 inches a year | 0.04% | 1 |
| Blizzard of 1996 | 0.04% | 1 |
| sometime around 1966, a nor'easter dumped almost 4 feet of snow | 0.04% | 1 |
| being from Canadian prairies, such is common experience there! | 0.04% | 1 |
| White Juan 2003 | 0.04% | 1 |
| blizzard of 1978.. connecticut- northeast | 0.04% | 1 |
| I grew up in NJ and we had a lot of winter storms, hurricanes and ocean and bay meeting in the street where I lived then. | 0.04% | 1 |
| 2004 hurricane season in south Florida followed by hurricanes Katrina and Wilma, so a little snow is no big deal | 0.04% | 1 |
| Blizzards of 1981 in MN we had three in a row of over 20 inches. Halloween blizzard of 1991 also in MN . | 0.04% | 1 |
| typical Alaska winter storms every winter except last year and this year so far. | 0.04% | 1 |
| Storm of 1984 | 0.04% | 1 |
| 78 | 0.04% | 1 |
| Boston had a big one 1996 | 0.04% | 1 |
| Western Canada 1999? Ice & snow knocked out power to 100,000's, collapsed buildings | 0.04% | 1 |
| Ice Storm of the late 90's in Ontario and Quebec ... brought down the power grid with some areas without power for weeks. Major damage to buildings and trees. | 0.04% | 1 |
| ohio | 0.04% | 1 |
| blizzard of 78 | 0.04% | 1 |
| white juan in nova scotia dumped 100 centimetres in 36 hours | 0.04% | 1 |
| forgot it | 0.04% | 1 |
| We have had blizzards and 12 inches in our state | 0.04% | 1 |
| White Juan, 2004, Halifax | 0.04% | 1 |
| Montreal Ice Storm 1998 | 0.04% | 1 |
| Blizzard of 1966 - Winnipeg | 0.04% | 1 |
| 'the ice storm' 2013 | 0.04% | 1 |
| white juan, nova scotia 2005 maybe? | 0.04% | 1 |
| Blizzard of 82 in Colorado | 0.04% | 1 |
| Flood of 1994 in Georgia | 0.04% | 1 |
| Chicago iner of 65/66 - shut Chcago down - they hav he bestsnow removal equip | 0.04% | 1 |
| blizzard of '78 | 0.04% | 1 |
| SNOW STORM OF 2009, LEFT OVER 30 INCHES OF SNOW IN DE AND HIGHER IN OTHER AREAS, BTW CENTRAL DE RARELY GETS MORE THAN ABOUT 3-5 INCHES OF SNOW | 0.04% | 1 |
| many storms in Maine | 0.04% | 1 |
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The record for the most snow in one season in the U.S. was 1,140 inches (95 feet) was recorded at Mount Baker Ski Area (4,200 feet elevation) during the July 1, 1998 to June 30, 1999 snow season. For perspective, that snow total is equal to the height of nine to ten basketball goals stacked on top of each other or running the distance on a football field from the goal line to just past the 30-yard line. Were you affected by this ridiculous amount of snow--even if it was over an entire winter season? Yes
12%
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260 votes
No
56%
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1173 votes
Undecided
12%
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241 votes
Not Applicable
20%
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411 votes
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Mount Shasta, California was the biggest snowfall from a single storm ever recorded. Perhaps you experienced it, and perhaps you did not. Either way, would you enjoy having this much snow (I dislike snow, so I answer NO!, but some people dream of this type of snowfall)? I'm with you...NO!!!!
45%
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928 votes
If I didn't have to drive, work, shovel...then yes
21%
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448 votes
In a heartbeat...I'd love it...snowball fights, snow angels, snow anything!
8%
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164 votes
N/A
26%
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535 votes
Other (please specify)
0%
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10 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| 0.19% | 4 | |
| No | 0.05% | 1 |
| i like the snow and it does not bother me to shovel the paths and sidewalk. I am female almost 80 years of age.k, | 0.05% | 1 |
| as long as we didn't loose electricity, then sure | 0.05% | 1 |
| depends | 0.05% | 1 |
| hate it | 0.05% | 1 |
| Only a little..... | 0.05% | 1 |
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