30 freaking inches outside my door. For a 6 inch storm this has gotten insane!

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18. That's why Mayor Lindsay got into so much trouble over it

Here, have some instant nostalgia:

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/40-years-snow-caught-queens-lindsay-surprise-article-1.391087

The forecast was for flurries.

Just one day later, as New Yorkers dug out from 20 inches of snow, the reality set in: dozens killed, the borough of Queens crippled, the mayor buried beneath a blizzard of insults.

Forty years ago this week, New York City was pounded by the storm that nobody expected: 15 inches in Central Park and 5 more at Kennedy Airport, one of the worst on record.

Television meteorologists predicted only a chance of snow before the flakes began falling Feb. 9, 1969.

Instead, a ferocious storm blew in. Schools closed for three days, mail service disappeared and Queens was cut off from the other boroughs.