Great website for Blizzard of '78

[paras4ri]

This is a link to the National Weather Service, Boston office. It has all sorts of stuff...stories....pictures.....a slide show...statistics.
It's great for those of us who remember it well as well as anyone who wants to see how bad it really was. Our state was literally shut down for a week.

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/box/blizzard78/mainblizzardof78.htm

 

[DVC-Don]

Thanks, I remember and was there.

 

[paras4ri]

 

[browneyes]

1978. I was 8 yo. I don't remember much snow then. I'll have to ask my mom if she remembers.

<img height="300" src="http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/box/blizzard78/Blizzardof78_files/slide0008_image017.gif">

 

[swanmom]

What memories of that terrible storm! The only good that came out of it was that my DH, who was a college student in Boston at the time, made enough money shoveling snow that week to pay for most of the next semester (Of course, college was cheaper then!)

 

[TigH]

I remember that! My Dad worked for Roche Bros and got stuck at the store that night. He spent the week living with a co-worker until he could get home.

After the snowplow cleared our street we had some wicked cool snowbanks to play on/in. We built a cool snowfort! Blocked the entrance off with a huge snow boulder, but a dog still managed to get inside and pee in it.

 

[ChefBilly]

The Herald is running a week-long look back, too:

http://www.bostonherald.com/lifestyle.html

And will launch an entire site dedicated to it later today!

Sadly, our family moved to Nebraska for two years in the late 70s, and we MISSED the whole storm! We were so jealous.

 

[paras4ri]

Is there much snow in Nebraska????

We keep telling our kids they'll never see a storm like it.

 

[ChefBilly]

Originally posted by paras4ri
Is there much snow in Nebraska????

There was what I consider a normal amount when we were there. (We moved back home in 1979.)
I mean, it was cold and it snowed, but not like all my friends were getting back home in Mass.

I'm still waiting for another one like it!

 

[ChefBilly]

The Blizzard of '78 site is up now... (It'll be up for a week or two, changing it daily.)

http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/blizzard78/

Actually, I did it. It's my job.

And I'm STILL jealous of all you people who got to experience it!

 

[TigH]

I could kiss you, ChefBilly! Thanks so much for the link! So you put this all together? You are an angel!

The picture of Route 9 going through Southborough is making me all teary eyed! The Mobile gas station sign is bringing back so many memories. That station was right next to Middle Road. We lived on Stub Toe Lane, right off middle road, and we used to walk to that gas station in the summer to buy soda and chips (on the days we didn't walk down by the reservoir to get downtown to the Spa to buy soda and chips!)

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! I forwarded the link to my sister and my parents. I am sure they will be just as pleased as I was!

 

[daughter_of_amid_chaos]

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

Blizzard of 78 is part of my major effort paper!

 

[aprincessmom]

I remember it all too well...we had no water or electricity for almost a week. Never mind plowing -- we lived on a road that hadn't yet been accepted by the town so we had to band together as a neighborhood and pay for a front end loader to come get us out. We'd walk down to the lake each day and get buckets of water, put them on the sled and haul them back to the house to use for drinking, cleaning, etc. Cooked in the fireplace because we couldn't find the gas grill...it was buried.

And when my sister and I complained about it my father said "You like Little House on the Prairie, right? Well now you're living it!"

 

[nativetxn]

That was quite a blizzard. Thanks for the link

 

[Nutsy]

Wow!!! Those pics are incredible. It's so hard to imagine that they are actually real. It is just so incredilbe to see these pics & know that this really happened.

As much as I love seeing pics of snow & the blanket of white, it's what's behind all that, that you neve know about that is so mind boggling


Thanks so much for this.......My kids will be in awe..........

 

[paras4ri]

The Herald website is wonderful, thanks so much for sharing it.

I'm sorry you missed the blizzard yourself

 

[paras4ri]

This is great.....it's a story by our own ChefBilly

http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/blizzard78/memories/bl_neb03022003.htm


Question for you.....which will happen first.....another storm like that or the Red Sox winning the World Series??

 

[ChefBilly]

I'm glad you like it!
(That story is actually by my brother.) But I'm the editor, so...

Basically, we're featuring stories from all kinds of people. It's fun to read all the memories. We'll be adding more all week. I have a huge backlog - I'm just trying to find the time to add them all.

And as for a Red Sox World Series or another blizzard like that???
I'd be more inclined toward a Bruins Stanley Cup!