Share This Article The Knickerbocker Storm refers to this. Typhoon, Netherlands East Indies Violent rugby match, England Tornado, Missouri and Illinois Blizzard, US East Coast Operation Market-Garden A blizzard in 1922 that dropped three feet of snow on Virginia, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The name derives from the Knickerbocker Theater in Washington, D.C., which collapsed killing nearly 100 people and injuring over 130 others.