Question: The Great Snow of 1717 is often compared to what Blizzard, in New England?

 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. 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.  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. <SEP> A nor'easter (also northeaster; see below) is a macro-scale cyclone.  The name derives from the direction of the strongest winds—as an offshore air mass rotates counterclockwise, winds tend to blow northeast-to-southwest over the region covered by the northwest quadrant of the cyclone.  Use of the term in North America is associated with several different types of storms, some of which can form in the North Atlantic Ocean and some of which form as far south as the Gulf of Mexico.  The term is most often used in the coastal areas of New England and the Mid-Atlantic states.  Typically, such storms originate as a low-pressure area that forms within 100 mi of the shore between North Carolina and Massachusetts.  The precipitation pattern is similar to that of other extratropical storms. Nor'easters are usually accompanied by very heavy rain or snow, and can cause severe coastal flooding, coastal erosion, hurricane-force winds, or blizzard conditions.  Nor'easters are usually most intense during winter in New England and Atlantic Canada.  They thrive on converging air masses—the cold polar air mass and the warmer air over the water—and are more severe in winter when the difference in temperature between these air masses is greater. <SEP> 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. <SEP> The March 2017 North American blizzard was a major late-season blizzard that affected the Northeastern United States, New England and Canada, dumping up to 3 ft of snow in the hardest hit areas, mainly New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Southern Quebec.  Forming out of an extratropical cyclone near the Northwest, the storm system dived into the northern portions of the United States, dropping light to moderate snow across the Great Lakes, Upper Midwest on March 11–12 before reaching the Ohio Valley the next day.  It later coalesced into a powerful nor'easter off the East Coast, producing a swath of heavy snowfall across a large portion of the Northeast.  The storm was given various unofficial names, such as "Winter Storm Stella", "Blizzard Eugene", and "Blizzard of 2017".