Jan. 2, 1949 started out as a calm, almost autumn-like, morning. I was in Kindergarten at the time. The Nebraska Weather Service issued the following forecast: "Cloudy with light snow. Little change ...

Retired Oklahoma State professor Zane Quible grew up on a cattle ranch in northwest Nebraska, and he was only 6 years old when the 1949 Blizzard hit. It was a storm where people saw snow heaped as ...

Take a look at some of the major snowstorms and blizzards that have blasted Nebraska. The first snowfall of the Blizzard of 1949 technically began at the end of 1948; but two of the worst days of ...

J.J. Ganney of Ashby, Neb., scaled this huge snowbank in January 1949 and used portable equipment to patch in to telephone lines. One of the worst blizzards on record swept across the Plains 66 years ...

The winter of 1948-49 brought a series of powerful storms that blanketed much of Nebraska, Wyoming and the Dakotas with heavy snow, extreme cold and blinding winds. Snowdrifts reached as high as 30 ...

SEWARD, Neb. (KOLN) - During the second week of January, two, back-to-back winter storms swept across Nebraska. But these conditions don’t measure up to a winter that happened 75 years ago. The ...