Read about the Blizzard of 1888 in NYC. Fifty inches of snow fell from March 11-15 and 200 people died. Some were trapped in burning buildings, while horse-drawn fire wagons were blocked by snow drifts twenty feet high. That was a truly catastrophic storm, and it wasn’t caused by global warming.
I have a book about that March, 1888 New York area blizzard.
They claim there were snow drifts on Long Island 100 feet in height.