The folks over at The Daily News compiled an amazing gallery of New York City snowpocalypse photographs from past decades. It was a simpler time when snowdrifts were melted with flamethrowers ...

"New York City is not a place that's made for storing snow," he said. So just to be clear: The city is not burning piles of snow; though it does, yes, melt it. And sometimes it just gets tossed ...