The bar is high for historic snowstorms in a lake-effect snowbelt city such as Buffalo, New York. On Jan. 30, 1977, 48 years ago today, parts of New York and southern Ontario were in the midst of one ...

But the blizzard of Jan. 28 to Feb. 1, 1977, remains the storm against which all other future storms will be judged, according to an informal survey of meteorologists with the Buffalo office of the ...

A new exhibit at the Buffalo Museum of Science is bringing back a flurry of snowy memories from the infamous Blizzard of 1977. The display, which includes personal photos from area residents, news ...

The blizzard was different, the rare event when words cannot fully do it justice. It was not a storm so much as a natural assault. The most brutal winter in Buffalo history seemed to come together in ...

John O'Rourk, retired from the Buffalo Police Department, at the Tifft Street ramp to Route 5 and the Skyway. During the great blizzard of 1977, O'Rourk and his partner, George Smith, helped many ...