Blizzard Overview Jim Allsopp & Richard Castro Northern Illinois and northwest Indiana were walloped by one of the most powerful winter storms in history between January 31 and February 2, 2011.

... January 12, 2011 Blizzard NBC Connecticut Coverage - Duration: 8:02. We at shoveling and cleaning cars. It catapulted the state into a late winter and smashed earlier blizzard and snowfall records with its sudden and continued intensity. Many remember the Blizzard of '78 and who could forget the slippery highway nightmare of February 2001? This is part 2 of my driveway on January 12, 2011 in Hartford, CT. Snow was measured in Connecticut between twenty and fifty inches, but high winds caused snowdrifts up to twenty feet in several areas. Cities were shut down for days as residents hunkered down against 85 mph winds. What is the most snow ever recorded in Oklahoma? Hello winter 2011! The Oklahoma record for the most snowfall in a twenty-four-hour period was set in the city of Spavinaw on February 9th, 2011. Most areas of Connecticut received 20 - 28 inches. This is my driveway in Hartford, CT on January 12, 2011. But Connecticut has recorded a history of winter storms going back hundreds of years. In one twenty-four hour period, thirty-one inches of snow fell in New Haven with forty-five inches as the total by the end of the storm."

Official totals included 50 inches in one Connecticut town, where a snow drift was reported to stand 38 feet high. Snow started around midnight and came down hard and steady until about 4 PM.