Where were you 30 years ago...
...when the Blizzard of '78 hit?
What wikipedia has to say about The Blizzard of '78
Me, I was in the 8th grade. I was in school when it started snowing. They didn't release us early. I remember that the bus ride home was quite the adventure and it took well over an hour.
My father who was working in Waltham at the time got to work at his usual time. At about 9:00 he noticed it was snowing heavily and headed home. Lucky for him that he did otherwise he would've been stuck in the parking lot that 128 became.
It snowed and it snowed. Fortunately, we didn't lose power during the 30+ hours of the storm. There must have been at least 3 feet of snow where I was. That was on top of the 2 feet that a Nor'easter had dumped a couple of weeks earlier. The weirdest thing was the state of emergency. Massachusetts was basically closed for a week. No cars were allowed on the roads for five days. I remember walking down what is normally a very busy main street with my father to get to the corner store. And us kids went from 5 snow days straight into the week off for February vacation.
This is a home movie of the snowplow attempting to get down our street. It got as far as our mailbox before it could no longer push the snow. The town had to bring in a front-end loader to clear the street.
This is what our house and street looked like after the storm.
My father trying to knock down some of the snow pile so the blower can throw the snow over it.
This is my brother standing on top of the snow-pile after snowblowing the driveway. You'll notice I was taking the pictures and not doing the shoveling. *g*
What wikipedia has to say about The Blizzard of '78
Me, I was in the 8th grade. I was in school when it started snowing. They didn't release us early. I remember that the bus ride home was quite the adventure and it took well over an hour.
My father who was working in Waltham at the time got to work at his usual time. At about 9:00 he noticed it was snowing heavily and headed home. Lucky for him that he did otherwise he would've been stuck in the parking lot that 128 became.
It snowed and it snowed. Fortunately, we didn't lose power during the 30+ hours of the storm. There must have been at least 3 feet of snow where I was. That was on top of the 2 feet that a Nor'easter had dumped a couple of weeks earlier. The weirdest thing was the state of emergency. Massachusetts was basically closed for a week. No cars were allowed on the roads for five days. I remember walking down what is normally a very busy main street with my father to get to the corner store. And us kids went from 5 snow days straight into the week off for February vacation.
This is a home movie of the snowplow attempting to get down our street. It got as far as our mailbox before it could no longer push the snow. The town had to bring in a front-end loader to clear the street.
Click to viewThis is what our house and street looked like after the storm.
My father trying to knock down some of the snow pile so the blower can throw the snow over it.
This is my brother standing on top of the snow-pile after snowblowing the driveway. You'll notice I was taking the pictures and not doing the shoveling. *g*