1978 was outstanding. Lived in southern Massachusetts on the CT border and we had remembered 42”. The military had to come with equipment to plow our rural area. We survived and I wasn’t a Prepper then. We’ll survive!
I was a kid in 78, but I remember the national guard having to come to clear our road. They had massive payloaders and dumped it all on the golf course across the street.
That was a kid’s paradise. Snow forts, snow ball fights, snow tunnels.
I don't remember the Blizzard of 78 as being that bad for me personally - I don't think we lost power (lived in the East Hartford/Glastonbury area back then). I remember how we were all stunned that Gov. Ella Grasso shut down all the highways for two days. Don't remember how much snow we got, but there was a lot of blowing and drifting of the snow, piling "mountains" of snow up against the house.
The December 1973 Ice Storm was horrific, as bad as last year's freak October snow storm, except MUCH colder - we had no lights or heat for over a week... every tree was damaged by the heavy ice, tree limbs and downed power lines littered every street. Some streets were impassable for days. We had to leave water running from the faucets so the pipes wouldn't freeze.
There were many - maybe hundreds - of out-of-state and Canadian power trucks all over the Hartford area, slowly restoring power block by block. Our lights came back on just a few days before Christmas (thank you Hydro Quebec line crews!). I'll never forget how happy my family and I were to see our house and the entire neighborhood all lit up again for Christmas after so many days in the cold and darkness.