The experts knew a big storm was brewing. Little did they know how crippling it would be. The evening before, on Thursday Jan. 27, 1977, the National Weather Service issued ...

30 years ago today Buffalo was in the midst of the famous 3 day long Blizzard of 1977. It was the first snow storm to receive a federal disaster declaration.

A UB researcher surveyed Blizzard of ’77 survivors a year after the storm to see what kept them going and how they’d react to severe weather in the ...

The Blizzard of ’77 stretched several days from Jan. 28 to Feb. 1, ... “My mom was due with me the day the blizzard hit Buffalo, and she was stuck at home,” Maldonado writes.

The blizzard brought 69 mile-per-hour wind gusts, moving snow that had piled up on the lake onto the City of Buffalo, which already had a few feet of snow on the ground just prior to the blizzard.

But in working-class Buffalo, nobody talks about 1978. For them, the Mother of All Storms came earlier, that cruel January ambush known as the Blizzard of ’77 , with its icy fangs gnashing, its ...

Retired officer George Smith recalls braving winds and snow with other officers to lead terrified motorists to safety from snow-covered vehicles along ramp to Route 5 and the ...

That number surpasses the most commonly reported death toll of 29 from the Blizzard of '77, widely known as Buffalo's worst storm of all time until this one, WIVB pointed out.