Question: What blizzard was often compared to a storm referred to as the Great White Hurricane?
Context: Hurricane Agnes was, at the time, the costliest hurricane to hit the United States in recorded history.  The second tropical cyclone and first named storm of the 1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Agnes developed on June 14 from the interaction of a polar front and an upper trough over the Yucatán Peninsula.  Initially forming as a tropical depression, the storm headed slowly eastward and emerged into the western Caribbean Sea on June 15.  Once in the Caribbean, the depression began to strengthen, and by the following day, it became Tropical Storm Agnes.  Thereafter, Agnes slowly curved northward and passed just west of Cuba on June 17.  Early on June 18, the storm intensified enough to be upgraded to Hurricane Agnes.  Heading northward, the hurricane eventually made landfall near Panama City, Florida late on June 19.  After moving inland, Agnes rapidly weakened and was only a tropical depression when it entered Georgia.  The weakening trend halted as the storm crossed over Georgia and into South Carolina.  While over eastern North Carolina, Agnes re-strengthened into a tropical storm on June 21, as a result of baroclinic activity.  Early the following day, the storm emerged into the Atlantic Ocean before re-curving northwestward and making landfall near New York City as a strong tropical storm.  Agnes quickly became an extratropical cyclone on June 23, and tracked to the northwest of Great Britain before becoming absorbed by another cyclone on July 6. The Great Blizzard of 1978, also known as the White Hurricane, was a historic winter storm that struck the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes regions from Wednesday, January 25 through Friday, January 27, 1978.  The 956.0 mb barometric pressure measurement recorded in Mount Clemens, Michigan was the third lowest non-tropical atmospheric pressure recorded in the mainland United States and the lowest in the Central United States.  The lowest confirmed pressure for a non-tropical system in the continental United States was set by a January 1913 Atlantic coast storm.  The lowest central pressure for the 1978 blizzard was 955.5 mb measured in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada.  On rare occasions, extra-tropical cyclones with central pressures below 28 inches of mercury or about 95 kPa (950 mb) have been recorded in Wiscasset, Maine (27.9") and Newfoundland (27.76").  In addition, the blizzard is the highest-ranking winter storm on the Regional Snowfall Index, with a maximum value of 39.07, and one of only twenty-six storms to rank as a Category 5 on the scale. Great White is the first full-length album by the American rock band Great White.  Three tracks are taken from the band's previous EP, albeit in re-recorded versions.  The musical style of this album is very different from the following highly successful releases of Great White, as they display here a more hard-driving metal sound as opposed to their later, blues-infused rock sound.  EMI America judged the album a disaster and Great White were dropped.  This led to a rethink by the band, and they became less heavy, introducing a tame hard rock sound for later albums. The great white shark ("Carcharodon carcharias"), also known as the great white, white pointer, white shark, or white death, is a species of large mackerel shark which can be found in the coastal surface waters of all the major oceans.  The great white shark is notable for its size, with larger female individuals growing to 6.1 m in length and 1950 kg in weight at maturity.  However most are smaller, males measuring 11 to and females 15 to on average.  According to a 2014 study the lifespan of great white sharks is estimated to be as long as 70 years or more, well above previous estimates, making it one of the longest lived cartilaginous fish currently known.  According to the same study, male great white sharks take 26 years to reach sexual maturity, while the females take 33 years to be ready to produce offspring.  Great white sharks can swim at speeds of over 56 km/h , and can swim to depths of 1200 m . The Great Snow of 1717 was a series of snowstorms between February 27 and March 7, 1717 (Gregorian calendar) that blanketed the colony of New York and the New England colonies with five or more feet (1.5 or more meters) of snow, and much higher drifts.  Snowfall may have occurred elsewhere, but settler population was sparse outside of New England at that time.  The Great Snow is considered one of the benchmark storms in New England, often compared to the Great Blizzard of 1888 in severity. Stephan Swanson came to prominence as a marine researcher when he successfully placed the satellite transmitter on the famous Great white shark Nicole, the first great white shark ever to be tracked on a 20,000 kilometer migration from South Africa to Australia and back.  Due to his ability to handle large marine predators, such as the great white shark, he was contracted as an expedition biologist to travel to Guadeloupe and place satellite transmitters on the dorsal fins of Great Whites.  His historical capture and release of a 5m long, 1800 kilogram great white shark is documented in the National Geographic Marine Special "Ultimate Shark". Hurricane Sandy (unofficially referred to as "Superstorm Sandy") was the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, and the second-costliest hurricane in United States history.  Classified as the eighteenth named storm, tenth hurricane and second major hurricane of the year, Sandy was a Category 3 storm at its peak intensity when it made landfall in Cuba.  While it was a Category 2 hurricane off the coast of the Northeastern United States, the storm became the largest Atlantic hurricane on record (as measured by diameter, with winds spanning 1100 mi ).  Estimates as of 2015 assessed damage to have been about $75 billion (2012 USD), a total surpassed only by Hurricane Katrina.  At least 233 people were killed along the path of the storm in eight countries. The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, historically referred to as the "Big Blow," the "Freshwater Fury," or the "White Hurricane," was a blizzard with hurricane-force winds that devastated the Great Lakes Basin in the Midwestern United States and the province of Ontario in Canada from November 7 through November 10, 1913.  The storm was most powerful on November 9, battering and overturning ships on four of the five Great Lakes, particularly Lake Huron.  Deceptive lulls in the storm and the slow pace of weather reports contributed to the storm's destructiveness. The Great Blizzard of 1888 or Great Blizzard of '88 (March 11 – March 14, 1888) was one of the most severe recorded blizzards in the history of the United States of America.  The storm, referred to as the Great White Hurricane, paralyzed the East Coast from the Chesapeake Bay to Maine, as well as the Atlantic provinces of Canada.  Snowfalls of 20 - fell in parts of New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, and sustained winds of more than 45 mph produced snowdrifts in excess of 50 ft .  Railroads were shut down and people were confined to their houses for up to a week.  Railway and telegraph lines were disabled, and this provided the impetus to move these pieces of infrastructure underground.  Emergency services were also affected. The 1927 Nova Scotia hurricane (also known as the 1927 Great August Gale or the Great Gale of August 24) was the deadliest Canadian hurricane since at least 1900, as well as the strongest tropical cyclone to ever strike Canada.  The first observed storm of the season, this cyclone developed from a tropical wave over the deep tropics of the Atlantic Ocean on August 18.  Initially a tropical storm, it moved west-northwestward and intensified into a Category 1 hurricane on the modern day Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale by August 19.  The storm deepened significantly over the next few days, and by August 22, it peaked as a Category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 125 mph (205 km/h).  Around that time, the system began curving northwestward and later northward.  By August 23, it turned to the north-northeast and then began weakening on August 24.  Thereafter, the storm accelerated toward Atlantic Canada.  Late on August 24, the hurricane struck near Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, as a Category 2 hurricane, just before becoming extratropical.
Answer: The Great Snow of 1717