Good names for bad storms: Frankenstorm, Snowpocalypse and more
Deborah Dopp and her dog “Skippy” shoveled out of the snow in southwest Minneapolis. (Elizabeth Flores, The Star Tribune / Associated Press)
President Obama referred to the massive snowfall in February 2010 as Snowmageddon. The steps of the Supreme Court in Washington are pictured. Between 1 and 3 feet of snow fell in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Virginia, New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware. Some reports called it the worst snowstorm in nearly a century. (Alex Brandon / Associated Press)
Just three days after Snowmageddon came a storm that hit the Midwest, the Mid-Atlantic and New England, blasting them with hurricane-force winds. About 10 to 20 inches accompanied this storm, which swept areas already buried from Snowmageddon. Above, Navid Vardi clears a walkway to his men’s clothing store in the Georgetown shopping district of Washington. (Cliff Owen / Associated Press)
Pedestrians walk along Wisconsin Avenue in Washington. Together, two major storms of February 2010 were dubbed by some media as “Snowtorious B.I.G.” (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press)
Crews work to clear runways at Philadelphia International Airport. The December 2010 blizzard brought 12 to 32 inches of snow from northern Florida to Maine. (Matt Rourke / Associated Press)
A winter blizzard of historic proportions wobbled an otherwise snow-tough Chicago, stranding hundreds of drivers. The storm, called the third-worst snowstorm on record for the area, dumped 20 inches of snow on Chicago. (Kiichiro Sato / Associated Press)
More than 3 million people, from Virginia to Maine, lost power in an October snowstorm that brought a rare “white Halloween” to some spots back East. Winter storm warnings were in effect from Pennsylvania to eastern Maine and brought heavy snow and high winds. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
A massive storm battered Alaska’s western coast with winds topping 80 mph and towering sea surges.
More: Brutal winds, white-out blizzard in Alaska (Peggy Fagerstrom / Associated Press)