10 Photos from the Blizzard of ’96 That Prove It Was the Craziest Snowstorm EVER

Manhattanites got around through tunnel-like clearings through heaping snow piles. More than 20 inches fell in New York City.

Oh, no big deal. Just some Washington, D.C., residents skiing past the Capitol Building. Parts of the area received as much as 25 inches of snow!

Kids climbed on top of 30-foot piles of snow in New York City, nearly reaching traffic lights.

Snow was cleared by the truckload in Philadelphia, which got hit with about 30 inches, and then dumped into the Schuylkill River.

Hard to tell, but there are whole cars under the snow in this photo taken in Fairfax, VA. Parts of that state got a whopping 47 inches! via PatrickRockeyWeather on Facebook.

A brave Philadelphia-area woman tried walking, or maybe marching, through the powder, only to take a tumble (she got back up again!). via 6ABC Action News/Facebook

Traffic came to a near-standstill in the Boston area, as this photo of Route 93 in Andover, MA, shows. Beantown was hammered with about a foot-and-a-half of snow.

Shoppers along glitzy Fifth Avenue in Manhattan practically walked single-file because only a narrow pathway could be cleared.

New York City's East River looked more like a snowy meadow with all the powder sanitation trucks were pouring into it!

BURIED! We wouldn't want to be the drivers who had to dig out these cars in Manhattan.