Snowmageddon: the 5 worst snow storms in New York history

Описание: The "life-threatening" Winter Storm Juno that is battering New York is merely the latest in series of snowstorms that have hit the city over the years

A blizzard has barrelled into the US Northeast, making workers and students housebound, halting thousands of flights and prompting New York to ban cars from roads and halt subway trains.

The National Weather Service warned of a "life-threatening blizzard" that could dump as much as 30 inches of snow on parts of the region. It said winds could gust up to 55mph around New York City.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo banned travel from 11pm (0400 GMT) for all but emergency vehicles on roads in 13 counties.
"If you are in your car and you are on any road, town, village, city, it doesn't matter, after 11 o'clock, you will technically be committing a crime," Mr Cuomo said. "It could be a matter of life and death so caution is required."

Stuck at home, many New Yorkers turned to social media to give voice to their frustration, adopting such storm-related hashtags as #blizzardof2015, #Snowpocalypse and #Snowmageddon2015 – the last one being the Name President Obama gave to February 2010 blizzard that left hundreds of airline passengers stranded at John F Kennedy Airport in grounded planes

The blizzard is merely the latest snowstorm to have battered the city over the years. The biggest snowfall on record in New York City came during the storm of February 2006, when 26.9 inches fell after is snowed continuously for 16 hours, blanketing the city.

Some 2,500 workers were deployed round the clock in 12-hour shifts to try to clear the snow from the streets.

Ten years earlier in 1996, a powerful blizzard caused widespread power outages, $1 billion worth of damages and dozens of fatalities.

But the worst death toll in US history for a winter storm came during the Great Blizzard of 1888, where more than 400 people in Northeast died.

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