Although I was not there in the "Blizzard of 78" , the mother of all Blizzards, I did get to participate in all the Blizzards from 1984 to 2003 that befell the state of Massachusetts. I have since been spared from your torment, as I know live in Georgia, where it is currently 48 degrees and expected to get up to 69 degrees today.
On your run to the Grocery store, do not forget the bathroom tissue.
"Sounds like another "Blizzard of '78"."
I lived in Marshfield, MA during the Blizzard of 78, across the marshes from a thickly settled slip of beach called Humarock.
That blizzard devastated Humarock the same way the recent tsunami devastated parts of Indonesia... There was a full moon tide that peaked right at the height of the blizzard, and the tide ran at least 11 feet (if I remember correctly)higher than normal.
All the houses were washed away into the marshes. It was a devastating blizzard. Almost everyone rebuilt, but they put their houses on stilts this time.
Blizzard of 78 was nothing compared to the BLIZZARD of 77 that hit Buffalo NY. It took 2 weeks to get the City reopened. Now that was a BLIZZARD!!!!!