Record blizzard buries Panhandle and South Plains

Looking down on snow covered northwestern Texas from a private plane on Feb. 4, 1956, a photographer for the Associated Press likened the “gigantic, white noman’s land” to “a huge white sheet thrown over a world-sized bed (with) no sign of roads or people.” According to an official report by the U.S. Weather Bureau, the freak storm came in two stages. Part One was a rather ordinary front that…