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New York fought the 1947 snowpocalypse with flamethrowers

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The folks over at The Daily News compiled an amazing gallery of New York City snowpocalypse photographs from past decades. It was a simpler time when snowdrifts were melted with flamethrowers, back in 1947.

https://gizmodo.com/tell-me-you-wouldnt-buy-this-snow-fighting-fire-plow-1519897386

An abandoned train on an elevated pass in Third Avenue.

Here are some firefighters trying to “free up equipment completely encrusted in ice” after a fire alarm in 1983.

Cars trapped in the Brooklyn Queens Expressway in 1983.


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