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Remembering the Blizzard of ‘78, 35 years later [on the eve of Boston being buried, again]
Boston Globe ^ | February 8, 2015

Posted on 02/08/2015 3:00:47 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife


Snow surrounded a car on Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester during early morning hours on Feb. 7, 1978. The 1978 blizzard blanketed much of the region with snow on Feb. 6 and 7, with 27.1 inches accumulating at Logan Airport.

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Gandolf, an Irish setter, watched Martine Carroll, 14, walk down Trenton Street.

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(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blustery; cabinfever; chilly; cold; frostbite; hats; jackets; mittens; pilesofsnow; plows; schoolout; shovels; skarves; skiing; sledding; slipandfall; snow; snowangels; snowflakes; snowmen; snowstorm; tobaggan; weather; winter
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21 posted on 02/08/2015 5:11:51 AM PST by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: Crazieman

From “Slate” today:

“....The city has rarely been tested like this in the winter, and its $18 million snow removal budget is soon to run out. The five snowiest 7-day stretches on record in Boston have all occurred since 1996, another data point of evidence that Northeast snowstorms are getting more intense, in part due to climate change.

So far this season, Boston snowplows have collectively travelled two-thirds of the distance from the Earth to the Moon in a quest to rid the city of the great white menace. Much of that snow has been loaded into dump trucks and piled in a giant “snow farm”—a vacant lot across the harbor from Logan Airport in the city’s Seaport District. There, bulldozers have worked tirelessly all week compacting the snow to try to make room for more.....”

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/02/06/boston_snow_storm_another_foot_is_on_the_way_also_freezing_cold.html


22 posted on 02/08/2015 5:14:09 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

That article would be quaint, if one hadn’t lived through it, and realize that a lot of people who should know better accepted its frightening totalitarian conclusions.


23 posted on 02/08/2015 5:14:13 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (This is known as "bad luck". - Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Catsrus

It is an older article, but linked (as additional stories) at the front page of the Boston Globe today.


24 posted on 02/08/2015 5:15:34 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I don’t think anything will ever beat the Chicago Blizzard of January 1979, which was followed by inept snow clearing and two months of brutal cold that made it extremely miserable for the people of Chicago and cost the job of the then-Mayor of Chicago, Michael Bilandic.


25 posted on 02/08/2015 5:19:46 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Celtic Conservative

We had 30” on January 27, this year and have had about 12” since and are due for another 12” over the next four days. In 1993-94, it was wicked cold and we had over 100” that winter, but it came over the entire winter. We’re looking at about 54” over two weeks. Not historic, but it sucks.


26 posted on 02/08/2015 5:27:27 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (This is known as "bad luck". - Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; All

City of Boston’s snow records :

1. Feb. 17-18, 2003 – 27.6 inches
2. Feb. 6-7, 1978 – 27.1 inches (The Blizzard of ’78)
3. Feb. 24-27, 1969 – 26.3 inches
4. Mar 31 – April 1, 1997 – (April Fool’s Storm)
5. Feb. 8-9, 2013 – 24.9 inches
6. Jan 26 -28, 2015 – 20 + inches
7. Jan. 22-23, 2005 – 22.5 inches
8. Jan. 20-21, 1978 – 21.4 inches (1st Blizzard of 78)
9. March 3-5, 1960 – 19.8 inches
10. Feb. 16-17, 1958 – 19.4 inches


27 posted on 02/08/2015 5:39:13 AM PST by Sparky1776
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To: palmer

Bastardi’s predicting that in a couple of weeks, the cold is going to set up more in the plains states down to Texas and they’re going to get hammered with snow then with storms coming from the south up the east coast (typical Nor’Easters). Then the mid-Atlantic states will get dumped on. He says that winter will be long and strong this year. We’ll see.


28 posted on 02/08/2015 5:43:58 AM PST by randita (Obama entrusted the transformation of the best healthcare system in the world to a scam artist.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I had just transferred to Quinnipiac college (now university) in Connecticut that semester. My friends all warned me that since the school was most residential (I was a commuter at the time) that classes never got canceled.

Then the Blizzards of ‘78 hit.


29 posted on 02/08/2015 5:44:02 AM PST by KosmicKitty (Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
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To: txrefugee
Has Joe Bastardi's weather report been posted on FR this week.

I usually notice it on Saturday threads but was busy helping sister who was under the weather.

30 posted on 02/08/2015 5:45:24 AM PST by mware
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To: Sparky1776

Oops - forgot the April Fools depth and the last storm was still ongoing - the final depth in Boston was 24.4 inches.

1. Feb. 17-18, 2003 – 27.6 inches
2. Feb. 6-7, 1978 – 27.1 inches (The Blizzard of ’78)
3. Feb. 24-27, 1969 – 26.3 inches
4. Mar 31 – April 1, 1997 – 25.4 inches (April Fool’s)
5. Feb. 8-9, 2013 – 24.9 inches
6. Jan 26 -28, 2015 – 24.4 inches
7. Jan. 22-23, 2005 – 22.5 inches
8. Jan. 20-21, 1978 – 21.4 inches
9. March 3-5, 1960 – 19.8 inches
10. Feb. 16-17, 1958 – 19.4 inches


31 posted on 02/08/2015 5:48:06 AM PST by Sparky1776
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I started to get concerned when the bars and liquor stores on Cambridge Street began to run out of beer.


32 posted on 02/08/2015 5:57:48 AM PST by bjc (Show me the data!)
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To: randita

I know you all won’t want to hear this but we are having a number of days in the low 80s in the Phoenix Valley and coming close to the daily records.

I don’t miss the winters in the midwest.

The winters I do remember were notable for either a single epic storm, and ice storm or a winter with repeated big snows where you never thawed out enough between them. It looks like NE has number 1 and 3 combined.


33 posted on 02/08/2015 6:09:23 AM PST by KC Burke (I know my screen name says KC but I'm in AZ now!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I worked in Hartford in 1978. I left work at noon and my boss thought I was overreacting to less than an inch on the ground. An hour later he couldnt get out of the parking garage and spent three days camping out at the office with 200 others.

It was a fairly deep snow storm but the significant factor was how fast and hard it hit.


34 posted on 02/08/2015 6:40:55 AM PST by muir_redwoods ("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
SE Michigan shattered all records last winter for both cold and snow. There are pictures of people in the upper peninsula sunbathing on the beaches on memorial day with ice up to the shoreline. The last of the ice on lake Superior finally melted in early July.

CC

35 posted on 02/08/2015 6:44:23 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (Cogito ergo non liberalo: I think, therefore I'm not a Democrat)
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To: BCW

We built ours in ‘68.


36 posted on 02/08/2015 6:51:44 AM PST by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“Strick” controls sounds pretty open-ended to me.


37 posted on 02/08/2015 6:53:21 AM PST by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: Crazieman

Global Norming


38 posted on 02/08/2015 6:57:19 AM PST by InvisibleChurch (http://thegatwickview.tumblr.com/ http://thepurginglutheran.tumblr.com/)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Saw it flurry in Miami that winter. Very humorous to see seeing how South Floridiots back then coped with temps in the 30’s.


39 posted on 02/08/2015 7:00:04 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

My backyard today...:)

Where’s all this &^%$#^! global warming these mental degenerates always carp on about?????


40 posted on 02/08/2015 7:58:12 AM PST by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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