KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: But first "CNN 20" today, the storm of the century.</s>DAVID FRENCH, CNN ANCHOR: It has been a weekend of snow, hurricane- force winds and deep-freeze temperatures for the East Coast of the U.S. The Associated Press is reporting at least 93 people have died because of the severe weather.</s>FLIP SPICELAND, CNN WEATHER ANCHOR: The blizzard of '93 was -- truly was the storm of the century. There were 26 states effected by the blizzard. There had never been a blizzard that had effected that large of an area of the U.S.</s>UNIDENTIFIED CNN CORRESPONDENT: In Maine, up to 30 inches of snow and 4-foot snow drifts. In Kentucky, 30 inches of snow and 8- foot drifts.</s>GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Throughout the northeastern United States, the snow was falling rapidly; in some places, at a rate of one to two inches an hour.</s>UNIDENTIFIED CNN CORRESPONDENT: This is Florida, a week before spring begins. And this is New England.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is considered to be the most dangerous storm in the past 50 years.</s>SPIECELAND: Many, many places saw a record setting snow fall, up to 20 inches of snow fall. And what made it even more odd: Many of those places were in the Southeast, where they don't get 20 inches of snow fall over several years, and they got it all in just one 24 hour period.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Heavy snow warning for metro Atlanta.</s>SPICELAND: It was just absolutely unbelievable. I had spoken with my producers, and he said: What are we going to do? Are we going to go on the air and say, "The worst storm ever in the history of record keeping is developing"? Because that's what it looked like. We chose not to do that, but we gave every kind of warning that we possibly could.
CNN 20: The Blizzard of '93, March 14, 1993