Typical items delivered regularly to homes during that period, such as milk, were subject to delays and sometimes deliveries were not possible due to roadways waiting plowing.
In Connecticut, the Stamford Historical Society site has a photograph of the 1947 snowfall at the end of its discussion of the blizzard of 1888 for comparison.
[5] In the book entitled, Disaster!, by Ben Kartman and Leonard Brown, the introduction to an article by Stephen Turkel describes the 1947 storm and its disastrous effects in detail.
They noted that the effect of this storm rivaled the tales boasters related about the blizzard of 1888 and in the article, many statistics regarding the 1947 snowfall are given of a type that exceed those recorded in 1888.
[7] The storm progressed westward toward the Great Plains, but with less moisture from the Gulf Stream feeding it along its path, the volume of snow lessened as the distance from warm seawater increased.