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No, I remember the 1978 blizzard very well as I lived in Revere, MA at the time, which was one of the hardest hit communities - schools were closed for three solid weeks! I was still in high school at the time but I got tons of stories about it. The day of that storm, they sent us home from school early. The wind was so strong that I had to turn around and walk backwards on the way home or the wind would have blown me over. Then the "wall" of snow hit around dark. Never saw anything like it. It went to a whiteout instantaneously and it snowed like that for 36 more hours. The storm actually stalled off Nantucket for a full day.

The storm I'm referring to was sometime in the mid 1990s, probably around 1994. I forget the exact year but I was working for an office equipment company as a field tech in downtown Boston. They had us doing service calls up until the time that the city shutdown. I remember my wife being pissed because the company kept me until it was too late to get home but I didn't mind one bit. It was an adventure.

Back to 1978, everybody in Boston at that time remembers the big blizzard Feb 6-7 but just a couple weeks earlier, Jan 20, we had another big snowstorm in Boston of 20 inches - which was at the time hyped as "storm of the century". The Feb blizzard pretty much erased that storm from most people's memories.

I will always remember the National Guard coming to Revere in the wake of that '78 blizzard. They had armored vehicles going up and down the main streets for at least a week. My side street did not get plowed for nearly two weeks.