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.
Likely youi are thinking of the Blizzard or ‘93 that nailed the whole east coast.
It was considered the biggest storm on record as more than half the people in the US were affected by it.
1993 Storm of the Century
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Storm_of_the_Century
It also hit March 15.