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again. More than two feet of snow fell in parts of southeast Missouri, and drifts were as high as 10 feet in southern Illinois. A doctor and nurse in Fredericktown, Mo., had to ski to a rural house to deliver a baby.
February was cruel to the East Coast as well. A snowy rampage in mid-month paralyzed the Atlantic Seaboard and parts of the South. For a short time, all air travel east of St. Louis came to a halt.
More than a foot of snow fell on New York City. In Delaware, the governor declared a state of emergency as snow in Dover reached a depth of 25 inches.
Government Snowbound
The storm brought Washington, D.C., to its knees. Adding 18 inches to the half-foot already on the ground, it ranked as the most severe snowstorm since 1922. It foiled Washington’s birthday sales and stopped up the
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