February 16, 1958 marked the end of a massive snowstorm that had developed in the lower Mississippi Valley a few days earlier. By the morning of the 16th already more than a foot of snow was on the ground in DC.. 2’ pf snow clogged Boston by the evening of the 16 with an incredible 30-36” from the Catskills in New York to the White Mountains of New England. After the storm moved out to sea later that night the toll was staggering 43 had died and more than $500 million dollars of destruction, more than $4.5 billion in today’s dollars was totaled.

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