The Blizzard of 78 anyone?

[BalooTheBear]

I know it hit the Mid-Hudson valley, I don't remember the city or Long Island getting hit that bad.

I was working the midnite shift and when I left that morning it had only begun to snow. Later as I woke to get ready for my next shift, I was surprised that it had been canceled and found out why when I looked outside. My car was buried under about 2ft of snow.......

Cool no work!!!

 

[Snoopymom]

I was 12 in NE OH, got an extra week to finish a book report.

Our house backed up to a field, so the garage was one big snow drift, couldn't even see it.

I live in the South now and I can't imagine being housebound for that many days...my poor parents must have been miserable.

 

[Dodie]

I think we may be talking about two separate "blizzards of '78" in this thread:

The Blizzard of 1978 (January 25, 1978): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Blizzard_of_1978

Particularly hard hit were the states of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and southeast Wisconsin where up to 40" of snow fell. Winds gusting up to 100 mph caused drifts that nearly covered some homes. Wind chill reached 60°F below across much of Ohio where 51 of the total 70 storm-related deaths occurred.

There was apparently a Northeastern Blizzard of 1978 too, in early February (February 5, 1978): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeastern_United_States_blizzard_of_1978

Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts were particularly hard hit by this storm. In all, up to 55 inches of snow fell in some areas.

 

[dcgrumpy]

I was thinking the same thing. I was in the 12th grade and don't remember anything big in Queens.

It did hit NY and it was one of the few times that NYC schools closed. I don't remember it at all.

http://www.hurricanes-blizzards-noreasters.com/78blizzard.html

 

[Disney Ron]

I was nine. We lived in RI. I remember six DBs playing football in the street and not a car in site.

I remember taking a walk on Interstate 195 with my family, it was a sea of abandoned cars.

I also remember my DB pulling me on a tobogan to a local bakery for bread.

Mrs. Disney Ron

 

[DISUNC]

Did it hit Downstate NY? I was in 7th grade but I don't remember it at all.

YUP!!!!!! Close NYC for 2 days! I lived in Brooklyn at the time. In a 2 fare zone (train&Bus). The buses didnt run for a week afterwards ..had to get off the subway and walk 2 miles home! I was sooooooo young...but I remember my Mom taking her vacation time that week.

Now the winter of '94 in the Poconos!!!! When it snowed 2 feet every other day! I was stuck in my house for a week!

 

[Pakey]

I had just turned 21, was recently married and relocated from southern Mississippi to Minnesota in November and then relocated to Cape Cod in January where my new husband was stationed in the Air Force. I'd never seen snow before. Well, I saw plenty that winter, especially during the move across the northeast.

 

[dcgrumpy]

YUP!!!!!! Close NYC for 2 days! I lived in Brooklyn at the time. In a 2 fare zone (train&Bus). The buses didnt run for a week afterwards ..had to get off the subway and walk 2 miles home! I was sooooooo young...but I remember my Mom taking her vacation time that week.

I lived in the Rockaways at the time and used to take city buses to school I don't remember them not running. Then again I used to take the El sometimes

 

[wendy46001]

Nope don’t remember it, but I’m one of the many Blizzard babies

 

[Crankyshank]

I was 3. We lost power and had to take a plow across town to stay with my Grandparents, and then had to walk a few blocks to their house. I had to be carried because the snow was too high for me to walk on.
And it took about a week for us to get power back.

 

[Lintasare]

Wow...I wasn't even born. But I do remember the Blizzard of 93 which I know pales in comparison. School was closed for 3 days with late arrival the other two. We lost power and the sleeted causing the roads under the snow to ice up so you had snow on top and a thick layer of ice underneath. It was fun good times.

 

[bntlyclg89]

I was 10 and living in Wareham, MA during the blizzard. Ours was one of I believe 2 schools that were cancelled that day (it hadn't begun snowing yet). My mom worked in Brockton and went to work early. My dad worked for the schools in Wareham (which did have school that day).

We didn't get as much snow on the Cape as the rest of the state. My dad was able to get out driveway shoveled on day 2 or 3. My mom didn't come back from work (yes that's right work) until SATURDAY! Not fun for her.

I remember watching the news, and seeing the horrible wreckage on the coasts especially Revere.

 

[DISUNC]

I lived in the Rockaways at the time and used to take city buses to school I don't remember them not running. Then again I used to take the El sometimes

I also remeber this very clearly, cause my best friend & his wife lived next door to me. And she was due to have a baby anyday. So every night we had to shovel his car out. And every day they plowed him back in.

BTW that baby will be 30 this month and now has 3 kids of his own!

Now I feel ooooooooooooold!

 

[kathymc]

wow - I was 11 years old in Methuen MA. I had a paper route and can remember having to deliver papers a couple of days after the storm and my Dad had to pull me through the snow drifts as they were over my head!

If I remember correctly school was closed for a week, then we had school vaca and then I had the flu so I was out of school for 3 weeks!

I also remember skiing off our front porch, over two of our neighbors fences and making it all the way down the street through three backyards!

 

[twinmomplus2new]

I lived near revere Ma and we had a great time. School was closed for a week or more maybe 10 days? we went to the grocery store with sleds.
We made a huge snow bunker big enough for 5 or 6 kids. Made benches and a neighbor hooked the hose up and wet it to smooth it all over like an igloo. we played in it nonstop for 4 days.

then my dad arrived...( parents were divorced)
and FLIPPED out and destroyed the snow fort. because essentially with the height of the snow we were underground. he was afraid the plows were going to kill us.
I am still in therapy over it.

I must admit my husband made a fort at the end of my driveway, and i panicked and thought the same thing. so now they probably will need therapy as well.

 

[kat3668]

I was 10 living in Peabody one of the harder hit if I remeber correctly. We stayed up arond the clock shoveling the driveway so my Mom could make it to work. We lived on a huge hill and no one was able to make it up to go home, we heard tires spinning constantly.I also remember all the thunder snow we had I was really afraid of thunderstorms at that age and hid under the dining room table when that started up. It was fun to climb up to the top of the hill and sled all the way down to the main street (1/2 mile) without stopping. My flexible flyer got alot of miles on it that winter. We stayed out 2 solid weeks playing in the snow and made a complex city of igloos in my neighborhood for all the kids. That only lasted a week though as a child died from one collapsing on them and we had to destroy all our homes. We had them all decorated inside with rugs and things from our bedrooms we thought we were so cool!
I also remember there just being tons of kids at my house all day long, we lived on a awesome sledding hill and it was all kids in the houses surrounding mine so we did'nt have to deal with the grumpy old people chasing us out of thier yards. I'm so suprised I did'nt lose an extremity that winter, I lived in my snowsuit and had to be dragged in the house. It was alot of fun to experience that as a child not so sure I want to do that as an adult.

 

[aunties]

I remember it well! I was a freshman in college in Boston and staying with my elderly grandparents who lived in Malden. I took the T home and as the bus skidded to my stop, the bus driver announced that he was going back to the garage. It was snowing too hard to be on the roads. The next morning, we opened the back door and the drifts were over my head. I had to convince my grandpa (89) that I should be shoveling. He didn't think girls should be doing things like that. And we had to shovel through the drifts to get to the barn where the snow blower was. We had some great conversations while we shoveled. He even admitted he had never seen anything like it in his life. Grandma was inside keeping the coffee and tea hot and making her delicious cookies. They lived on one of the main streets and they didn't get fully plowed out for almost 4 days. It was an adventure trying to get through the paths on the streets to get to the convenience store for bread and milk. My aunt who lived next door worked for the phone company. Some one came by on a snow mobile to take her to work. I'll never forget the look on her face when the guy said, "Hold on tight!" It was a great adventure then, but I wouldn't want to go through it again!

 

[debster812]

I was 12 at the time, and we lived in Hingham MA, right on the border of Hull, 2.5 miles from Nantasket Beach. Those areas took the brunt of the storm surge off the ocean. DEVESTATING.

My dad was a firefighter/EMT and I don't think he came home for good for over 10 days. However, he did lots of drivebys into our neighborhood with milk and food.

He figured he rescued over 100 people, by boat, from thier houses.

I remember there being NO school for what seemed like FOREVER, it was awesome. There was a huge pack of kids in our neighborhood, and a GREAT sledding hill across the street. We could only sled until our clothes got soaked, and then it was a day or two, since there was no power to run the clothes dryers.

 

[cccm]

I was inthe 7th grade and remember school closing early and then being closed for a week. I lived in Weymouth MA at the time. The state was shut down and there were no cars allowed on the roads. We took our sleds and walked 3-4 miles to the store. We did lots of shoveling the week we were off but we also had lots of fun!!

From South Weymouth here! Do we know each other by any chance???

 

[twinmomplus2new]

what main street in Malden. I was on revere st in malden, the front yard was malden the back revere!