Snow surrounded a car on Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester during early morning hours on Feb. 7, 1978. The 1978 blizzard blanketed much of the region with snow on Feb. 6 and 7, with 27.1 inches accumulating at Logan Airport.
Posted on 02/08/2015 3:00:47 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Snow surrounded a car on Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester during early morning hours on Feb. 7, 1978. The 1978 blizzard blanketed much of the region with snow on Feb. 6 and 7, with 27.1 inches accumulating at Logan Airport.
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Gandolf, an Irish setter, watched Martine Carroll, 14, walk down Trenton Street.
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I remember building my first set of snow tunnels as a kid that winter...
I was in rural SE MA, snowed in for a week. The National Guard actually delivered milk and supplies.
That storm for the original impact was worse, as many drivers got stranded and there wasn't enough warning to prepare. But I don't recall it being followed by so much really bad weather.
Stuck on the Mass Pike, I was forced to spend the night in a roadside motel after two spinouts, and lucky to get the room.
It was nuts.
That looks like my VW, except it was buried in Natick at that time...
I wasn’t born yet, but after reading the article I wanted to say that the people who suggest population control should be the first to be killed.
Give up liberty for safety.
US Progressives destroy a republic in their quest to be the top 1%.
Angry Yeti with intestinal problems.
This last week was the most snow in a one week period in Boston. Evah.
Wasn’t so bad - removal techniques are much better these days - and makes for outstanding cross country skiing. More snow today...
I live around 10 miles outside Boston.
It seems just two weeks ago i was getting the great feeling that were were going to have one of those rare winters where the snow shovel barley leaves the garage now i look outside and it looks like the frigging North Pole outside.
Just woke up to even MORE snow with more to come today, tommorow, Thursday.....
ARGH!!!!!!!!!
As an 11 year old the Blizzard of ‘78 was pretty awesome, the giant mountains of snow made for great tunneling and snow fort action.
My cousin had to abandon his car along with hundreds of others down the middle of I95/rt128 and stay at a shelter for a couple of days.
Will never forget how pissed my father was after i dropped one of the two gallons of rationed milk that we had to trudge a couple of miles through all of that snow to purchase.
Crazy stuff.
The pattern does not look good for snow for us down south, no gulf storms at all You just keep getting the northern stream clippers and arctic blasts.
What people sometimes forget is that we already had snow on the ground when ‘78 came in and shut down the state.
When it was all over, I was the first one out of the house. When we pushed the door open I walked out on the side porch and started walking. I went off the porch, over a fence and onto a car. I remember kneeling down, brushing away the snow and seeing the car roof.
Not that we were going to use the car anytime soon. It was two weeks before the driving ban was lifted.
my roommate and I saw that Wednesday that this was going to be a big storm and stocked up in beer, booze and food. We jumped out second story windows into 6, 7, 8 foot drifts. The parking lot near the stadium where we parked our cars was completely covered over. Couldn't see a single car.
I've lived in the northern part of the country all my life and have never seen a storm like this one. The winds were so strong it was kind of scary.
SE Michigan got 19” over a 3 day period last week. It snowed for 36 hours straight. Embrace the suck, Boston.
CC
Joe Bastardi, who has a good record on predicting weather based on weather history, thinks that the biggest snows of this winter will come after Feb. 15, lasting until mid-March, as it was in 1958. Hope they have plenty of salt on hand.
Mine was buried in a parking space at the Cosat Guard Air Station in Opa Locka Fl.....that was brutal(sarc)
Same thoughts here in Ct rural & now it seems and maybe correct I have had the shovel in my hands every day for the past 2 weeks
Then the first couple of winters in the 1980s were mild. I remember being out on New Years Day with a light jacket on. The tv news back then showed people playing golf at a local course.
This is one of the reasons why I don't fall for this climate change nonsense. Weather goes around in cycles. So we have a bad winter this year. Who knows? We might have a mild winter next year. None of us, including the so-called experts, really knows.
Did anyone notice that the blizzard of ‘78 was 37 years ago, and not 35? Is this an old article?
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