I flew into Boston on a business trip on March 31, 1997, right into one of the biggest blizzards to ever hit there.
“The snow came in like a wall during the evening of March 31. Three inches per hour snowfall rates were common throughout the night. Boston received a foot of snow in four hours, between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. By dawn on April Fools morning, 2-to-3 feet of snow blanketed the region.”
It was the #4 all-time blizzard in Boston, dumping 25.4 inches. We were the last plane into Logan; other pilots were sensible and diverted or returned. It took over two hours for the shuttle to get to Braintree and many times I thought we were going to get stuck and spend the night in that cold van.
I couldn’t have picked a better week for that trip!
What a coincidence, ProtectOurFreedom. Later on in this thread I commented on my own hellish experience on this very date in the Boston area. Thank you for clarifying the date. April 1st, 1997.
Check it out:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4052745/posts?page=24#24
Small world... A few years later we moved to the Pocono mountains of Pennsylvania. Thankfully, we were living at a high enough elevation that snow was almost always of the powdery sort that was almost a pleasure to clear off the driveway.