Yes. The ‘78 Blizzard was much worse than this one. I lived through it.
They say this could equal 1978….who knows ?
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I experienced the 1978 blizzard first hand. Don’t recall the exact amount of snowfall but the wind was horrible. There were county roads that were drifted shut for miles with drifts 6-8 feet high. Some of them weren’t plowed out for 2 weeks. There were many places where you could literally walk up a snow drift to the top of your house. And it was really cold as well. Temps below zero and wind chills something like 50 below. I was a firefighter back then and we had a horrible time responding to incidents. We had a county snowplow assigned to the station to go ahead of us.
Me too, I loved it. A week off from school, and I used the time to build a snow fort at the end of the driveway where the street plows really piled up the snow that Vauban would have been proud of.