Big storms around the holidays tend to etch themselves into memory.

Take Thanksgiving weekend 2024, when heavy lake effect snow fell, or the Christmas Blizzard of 2022, when wind chills fell to 40 below.

But how many of you remember the Great Appalachian Storm of 1950?

While it has been 75 years, the memories of the slow-moving and powerful storm have been preserved at the Cleveland Public Library in photographs.

Cleveland Public Library/Photograph Collection

Cleveland Public Library/Photograph Collection

Pictures that captured the stark reality of the deadly five-day winter storm that pummeled NEO over the Thanksgiving weekend.

The National Weather Service has said the storm was one of the most unique and damaging winter storms on record, with blizzard conditions, crushingly cold t

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