Tangled telephone lines, 500,000lbs of manure covering streets, snowdrifts up to 52ft high in Brooklyn and more than 400 left dead on the East Coast.This was the scene 135 years ago, in the wake of one of the deadliest winter storms in American history. On the evening of 11 March, 1888, the Great White Hurricane or the Great Blizzard paralyzed communities from Chesapeake Bay to , as well as the Atlantic provinces of .
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