Snowiest winter since the “Little Ice Age”
“Looking back through accounts of big snows in New England by the late weather historian David Ludlum, it appears for the eastern areas, this winters snowblitz may have delivered the most snow since perhaps 1717,”says meteologist Joe D’Aleo.
That year, “the snow was so deep that people could only leave their houses from the second floor, implying actual snow depths of as much as 8 feet or more,” says D’Aleo.
The New England Historical Society wrote that the so-called “Great Snow” of 1717 was so intense that “Puritans in Boston held no church services for two successive weeks” — and if you know anything about Puritans, you know they don’t take missing church lightly.
“Entire houses were covered over, identifiable only by a thin curl of smoke coming out of a hole in the snow,” the Historical Society noted. “In Hampton, N.H., search parties went out after the storms hunting for widows and elderly people at risk of freezing to death.” Sometimes snow would pile so high people would burn “their furniture because they couldn’t get to the woodshed.”
http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/10/meteorologist-northeast-has-snowiest-winter-since-1717/
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/in_the_northeast_february_like_no_other_in_our_lifetime_jfm_harshest_since_/
Thanks to Ron De Haan for this link