Postage stamps and postal history of Trinidad and Tobago Postage stamps and postal history of Trinidad and Tobago This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad and Tobago lies northeast of Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles. Trinidad and Tobago was a Spanish colony from the times of Christopher Columbus to 1802, when it was ceded to Britain. The country obtained independence in 1962. The first stamps of Trinidad were the famous Lady McLeod, a private local post, stamps of 1847. The first definitives for Trinidad were issued in 1851. Tobago used stamps of Trinidad from 1860. Stamps
March 6–8, 2018 nor'easter March 6–8, 2018 nor'easter The March 6–8, 2018 nor'easter was a powerful nor'easter that wreaked havoc on the Northeastern United States just days after another intense nor'easter struck the Mid-Atlantic, hampering recovery efforts from that storm. Forming near the Outer Banks late on March 6 as the end phase of a long-tracked winter storm across the country, it rapidly deepened off the Mid-Atlantic coast on March 7 and brought up to of heavy snow, whiteout conditions and even coastal flooding (though nowhere near the levels seen in the prior nor'easter) to those in the impact zone from the storm, many