I experienced the 1978 blizzard first hand. Don’t recall the exact amount of snowfall but the wind was horrible. There were county roads that were drifted shut for miles with drifts 6-8 feet high. Some of them weren’t plowed out for 2 weeks. There were many places where you could literally walk up a snow drift to the top of your house. And it was really cold as well. Temps below zero and wind chills something like 50 below. I was a firefighter back then and we had a horrible time responding to incidents. We had a county snowplow assigned to the station to go ahead of us.
Yes..you are exactly right. That is how I remember it too. The entire seaside road of Town Way in Scituate was wiped out...every house was washed out to the sea. Of course, new ones were built, and I teach a student Bass Lessons in one of them.
If this weekend is as bad as ‘78, I may not have a house to go to on Monday.
My Ford Bronco was buried to the roof, and we didn’t see a plow for at least two weeks.
The silence was amazing. No traffic sounds, no snowblowers, no plows, no city noise...nothing.