Blizzard of '88 St. Marks Place, N.Y.
By Steve Cichorsky, ; posted February 11, 2010; hits 1914
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| In the hours after the blizzard hit early Monday morning, poles came crashing down from the weight of accumulating snow or after being struck by falling trees. Poles fell all over the city, taking neighboring trees and poles with them, and leaving sizzling, mangled wires that further obstructed streets already clogged with snowdrifts and blown down sign boards. Telegraph and telephone service was knocked out in every sector of the city. |