Yonkers, New York. Accumulations included: Allentown: 25.6; Baltimore: 22.5"; Big Meadows, VA: 47.0"; Boston: 18.2"; Bridgeport: 15.0"; Harrisburg: 22.2"; Islip: 17.0"; Jersey City: 22.0"; New York City: 20.2"; Newark, NJ: 27.8"; Philadelphia: 30.7"; Portland: 10.2"; Richmond: 9.5"; and Washington, DC: 17.1"
News account from the blizzard: "A monstrous, crippling blizzard that experts said would make history attacked the New York metropolitan region and much of the East yesterday [January 7] with blinding snow… By today, it was expected to leave New York, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New Haven, Boston and other areas snowbound and virtually paralyzed."
Source: Robert D. McFadden, “Wind and Snow Virtually Halt Travel,” The New York Times, January 8, 1996.
