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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From late Sunday night through Monday night, 18 inches of snow fell in Boston, according to Ron Horwood of the National Weather Service. The storm's track carried it along the Atlantic coastline, keeping the heaviest snows to the south of Boston...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Blizzard of'96 Strikes Harvard | 1/10/1996 | See Source »

Signs posted in Harvard dining halls yesterday blamed the stormy weather for modifications to the menu...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Blizzard of'96 Strikes Harvard | 1/10/1996 | See Source »

...Brattle Street closed at 2:30 p.m. instead of 9 p.m. due to the weather and the lack of customers, said James, a store manager who had the day off. "I know I stayed inside all day long," he said...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Blizzard of'96 Strikes Harvard | 1/10/1996 | See Source »

...Sage's Market on Church Street, the owner decided to remain open despite the weather, said assistant manager Susan Etlinger. "We thought about closing but [the owner] said 'No way,'" she said...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Blizzard of'96 Strikes Harvard | 1/10/1996 | See Source »

Forecasters at many local TV stations seemed, to paraphrase E.B. White, almost to be rooting for the storm on Sunday and Monday. "Local weather coverage has assumed tabloid proportions," TIME's Sam Allis reports from Boston, where television stations have promoted the storm and even recent, lesser bombardments "as if they are events of biblical proportions. One tunes into the eleven o'clock news to find scary, Siberian-like numbers written across a regional weather map. Only later do we find out that the minus forty-one registered in Worcester is, in fact, the wind-chill factor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STORM UND DRANG: | 1/9/1996 | See Source »

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