I was in college in the Northeast at the time. I lived off campus with my brother in a 2nd floor apartment. The day after, we were able to open our window and sled down to the street on flattened pizza boxes. The snow had drifted up that high and provided quite a sledding slope.
I was in Maine that year too. Remember driving out van after the roads finally got plowed, it was an adventure for sure. We didn’t need a ladder for the roof shoveling, just walked off the edge of roof onto the snowpile after we cleared the snow.
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Remembering the 1978 Blizzard - New England Historical Society
Snowdrifts trapped 3,000 cars and 500 trucks along eight miles of Rte. 128 alone. Fourteen people died of carbon monoxide poisoning while sitting in their snowbound vehicles. In New England’s cities, the 1978 blizzard stranded thousands more cars that took days to dig out.