The Blizzard of ’96 was one for the history books—January 6–8, 1996, the East Coast got buried under 2 to 4 feet of snow, basically shutting down everything from D.C. to New York. Airports closed, roads were a mess, and for a few days, life just stopped—unless you were a kid, because this was peak sledding and SNES marathon weather. Philly saw 30.7 inches, smashing records, and even cities used to snow struggled because the storm just didn’t quit. If you lived through it, you remember the silence, the snow tunnels, and the feeling that nature just pulled the plug on the ’90s for a weekend.