[fatnotlazy]

I don't live in New England, but I do remember the winter of 1977-1978 as almost non-stop snow. That followed the winter of 1976-1977 where the temperature went below zero and stayed there for almost 3 months. The winter of 1978-1979 we had chronic ice storms, freezing rain and sleet. My Dad totaled his car that year — slipped on some ice. Luckily he wasn't injured.

Then the first couple of winters in the 1980s were mild. I remember being out on New Years Day with a light jacket on. The tv news back then showed people playing golf at a local course.

This is one of the reasons why I don't fall for this climate change nonsense. Weather goes around in cycles. So we have a bad winter this year. Who knows? We might have a mild winter next year. None of us, including the so-called experts, really knows.

[Nowhere Man]

I was born in 1966 so I remember Winter of 1976/77 too with the below zero temps and we had trouble getting natural gas from New Orleans to Pittsburgh and other places north. School was cancelled for a total of two weeks because of the gas and the weather. We went until June 16th. I remember the snows of that winter as well as 1977/78. 1978/79, I also remember the ice storms too, falling on my butt.