One of the biggest winter storms to strike the Northwest arrived 106 years ago this week. Though it wasn’t as intense as the Big Snow of 1880, the February 1916 storm nearly destroyed one of Seattle’s earliest landmarks.
February snow is not unheard of in the Northwest – there was February snow in 2021, as well as 2019 for the inauguration of the downtown tunnel – but neither of those events were quite like the Big Snow of 1916. As much of two feet of snow fell in the Puget Sound area that January, and then, another nearly two feet fell between February 1-2.
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