The woman’s call came around 9:45 on a Friday night. Her son, a 33-year-old New York City man, had gone hiking in the Adirondack Mountains that March morning. He sent her a text message from the top of Mount Marcy at 12:45 p.m. but had not checked in since. Now, with up to 19 inches […]
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About 400,000 customers were still without power in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont on Friday after a powerful storm system brought springtime snowfall to northern New England. Here are the main things to know on Friday. The peak of the nor’easter had largely passed by Friday morning. The National Weather Service said it expected the […]
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The Sierra Nevada in California was so bereft of snow in December that skiers and farmers alike worried that a disappointing winter was sure to give way to a drought-ridden spring and summer. Then came a deluge in subsequent months, enough to bring the state back to a normal snowfall level and then some, state […]
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On March 1, 1888, a buyer for the department store Edward Ridley & Sons in New York City made an error. For $1,200, the buyer, John J. Meisinger, bought a carload of unclaimed wooden snow shovels — 3,000 of them — to sell at the store, the story goes. It was a “ridiculous low price,” […]
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