Today Is The Anniversary Of The Blizzard Of '78

[matcom]

where were YOU?

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. Syracuse, NY Watching my Grandpa (who was visiting) shovel

our driveway while smoking a cigarette. The man was made of steel. Died of natural causes too. :hi:

[Midlodemocrat]

2. In college in New Haven, CT.

I remember it took my dad three hours to get across town with my younger brothers who went to school about 5 miles from our house. Three hours. With his Ford LTD. That was a kick ass car. It could go through any snow.

School was halted for a week. It was cool.

[Ohio Joe]

3. Stuck

On the Garden State Parkway in Paramus NJ. Took my sister and I 7 hours to travel the 5 or 6 miles home.

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. I remember that winter - in Wisconsin that year,

we had shitloads more snow than usual. We had piles of snow on every street corner and at the end of every driveway so high it was hard to see around them.

[ET Awful]

5. Out playing in my front yard in Arizona

:P

[madrchsod]

6. freezing in my house in the country

my little part of northern illinois received over 85 inches of snow that year. this storm was the worst one that year.it took the county snow plow 2 days to clear the road so we could get out...now we`ve had about 8 total inches all winter.

[BikeWriter]

7. Texas City, Texas. It wasn't a bad winter for us. ;-)

[calico1]

8. I did not live in the area at the time.

I was in Puerto Rico. However, my honey, who was a teenager and worked at a local pizza parlor at the time got stuck at work with his boss. They could not get out. So he and the boss spent the time putting some new tile down on the floor. They also made pizza and sandwiches for all the snow removal crews. I have heard a lot of interesting stories of people who got stuck at work or wherever and just could not go anywhere.

[EstimatedProphet]

9. Columbia Missouri

As I recall it came down pretty good there too.

[nutsnberries]

10. at home, 30 miles north of Boston

...had a little break from High School, and got to see Gov Dukakis in a different sweater every day on tv... whoopdedoo!

ehhhh, and I remember walking around in our yard on top of the snow to clear the snow away from the first floor windows.

thanks for those pics!

[Thtwudbeme]

11. I was at home in NC

14 years old...jealous of those kids that didn't have to go to school for weeks!

Right up to summer when Mom explained that those kids wouldn't be getting a vacation because they had to make up their time.

Then I vowed to NEVER live up North.

A vow I have kept to this day! ;)

[flvegan]

12. Snowed into my house (Manomet, MA)

I remember it very well. No power, couldn't get in or out. We were right on the water, too. I don't think we left the house for days.

[Pithlet]

13. Rochester, NY

I was 5 years old. I remember thinking we were getting another winter break from school. The snow was deeper than I was tall in some places. The piles of snow after digging and plowing looked like mountains.

[1gobluedem]

14. Snowed in in Michigan

I was a senior in high school. We were out of school for five days. I remember getting cabin fever really bad being snowed in all that time. Fortunately, I don't think we lost power though.

[gollygee]

15. At my grandma's house

I was out of school sick and staying with my grandma, and I got stuck there!

[lukasahero]

16. It was my husband's first New England winter (up from NC)

He was in JP (near Boston) and thought every winter was like this! :rofl: It's a bloody miracle he stayed!

I was stuck in Cumberland RI at home in high school, shoveling snow above my head - two weeks before the plows got to us. It was GREAT! :)

[Gormy Cuss]

25. Now that's funny.

I have a neighbor (in Calif) whose daughter was in Boston for grad school two winters ago and thought they were all that cold and snowy. No explanation would convince her -- she had to stay another year before she believed anyone.

I was stuck in Maine in the Blizzard of '78. We had a normal high volume storm and major roads were open the next morning. I needed to go to upstate New York but couldn't go anywhere for 4 or 5 days because of the parking lot conditions on all the roads around Boston.

[underpants]

17. Did it snow in HELL!!??!?!

Look at the name of the store in the background


IS this sign directions to Dante's inferno?

[1gobluedem]

19. It did!

Hell (Michigan) froze over.

[Dan-W]

27. (pic #1) Nope, that's just his Night Club. n/t

[Magrittes Pipe]

18. Springfield, OH

There were drifts up to the roof. The howling wind made a mooing sound as it went past the garage door -- my dad told me there was a cow in there (I wasn't quite three yet).

[bigwillq]

20. Almost ready to be born!

Birthday is at the end of the month! :hi:

[Lady President]

21. Columbus, OH

I was in Columbus pouting. I was supposed to be enjoying my 7th birthday party, but it was cancelled because of the weather. :(

On the flip side, we didn't have school for days and could play in the snow. When you're 7 a blizzard is pretty great!

[Mikimouse]

22. AAAAAAHHHHH! I was almost stuck at New England Med. Ctr...

but got lucky, only because I was in my internship year and the department decided that I was non-essential personnel. I lived in dedham at the time and it took me 6 hours to get to my house. If memory serves, I left NEMCH at about noon, and none of the streets had been cleared yet. Tried a number of routes and finally ended up going around Jamaica Pond because that was not as steep as some of the other routes I had tried. Snowed in and stranedd at home for a week and a half. Blech!

[StaggerLee]

23. Lansing MI

I was eleven.

Snow days! Snow days! Snow days!


:)

[jane_pippin]

24. In my crib in Milwaukee screaming my little baby head off.

(sorry mom & dad)

[Dan-W]

26. My ex-wife had a daughter that day in Leominster, MA

and spent a week in the hospital because (as you know) the Commonwealth was pretty much closed down.

[noonwitch]

28. At home in Kentwood, MI

I remember-my dad had his gall bladder out and none of us could get to the hospital to see him. Our neighbor plowed us out the next day, and I went skiing, because it was great ski snow.

[Pied Piper]

35. Hey noonwitch!

We had that whole week off from school, didn't we? I remember climbing up to the roof and jumping into the snowbanks.

[Taverner]

29. Santa Clara, CA

I think it was 65 that day :P

[huskerlaw]

30. Lincoln, Nebraska

but then again, I was only about 6 months old so I can't say I remember it. ;)

[skygazer]

31. Home in Vermont

Hoping for snow days from school. I think we missed one day - damn rural bus drivers, anyway. :grr:

[hunter]

32. A very small package of custom electronic parts was caught in that mess...

Without it, the United States might have lost the Cold War and we'd all be speaking Russian now.

Well, not really, but sometimes you work for people who think like that.

[miss_american_pie]

33. In the sled my dad built for me.

[qnr]

34. USCG Station Montuak -- really busy, we had to take over the area of

responsibility for a number of other stations.

[AngryAmish]

36. Blizzard of 79 was worse

Used to sled off the garage.

[DS1]

37. So what

Every goddamn year is the anniversary of '78, if you live in NE, and watch any local news.

If you're lucky, you'll even have a 6 months until the anniversary of '78 parties in August

[matcom]

40. i didn't live in New England back then fucknuts

we got hammered in D.C. :D

[DS1]

42. you get hammered everywhere

:D

[matcom]

45. oh, i thought we were talking 'bout the anti-war march

in 2002 :hide:

[DS1]

47. Ahh yes, the double night surprise

:beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:

:hangover: :hangover: :hangover: :hangover: :hangover:

:beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :jugwine: :beer: :anythingavailable: :boring:


:hangover: :hangover: :hangover: :hangover: :hangover:
:hangover: :hangover: :hangover: :hangover: :hangover:

[matcom]

48. you forgot...

:triedtokillMikeMalloy:

:P

[DS1]

50. I didn't try to kill Mike Malloy

huh?

[matcom]

51. was referring to Pitt

the antihistamine + scotch :D

[DS1]

53. oh thank god

because I'd have believed it if you'd said it was me :rofl:

[matcom]

54. YOU tried to have your way with Kathy

luckily Malloy was passed out by then :P

[DS1]

55. Anyone with a sane mind would have

:shrug:

[matcom]

56. 'sane mind'?

i'm not sure about that

but i agree 100% :D

[madinmaryland]

38. Northwest Ohio. Worked as a carryout

in a grocery store. Bagging and carrying out gorceries. 30" of drifting snow. Only time I ever saw farm tractors in the grocery stores parking lot. Worked 14 hour days for four straight days, as I and four others were the only ones able to get in, and I lived a block away.

Absolute hell, though at least I got out of school and had a big paycheck a couple of weeks later!!

[Aristus]

39. I was nine and living on Ft. Knox, Kentucky.

We had snowdrifts up to the tops of our windows after the storm. My dad was out in the field on maneuvers (THAT must have been fun!), so my Mom closed off the rest of the house, shut the heating vents to the other rooms, and we gathered in her room, wrapped up in blankets and watched TV all night.

[trof]

41. Moved to Merrimack, NH (from AL) in July 1978.

Got there just in time for it and thought "What in the HELL have I done?"
I was a TWA pilot and was stuck at home for a week.

[Maine-ah]

44. We lived in Hillsborough!

:hi:

[Maine-ah]

43. Here we are! And that's me at the bottom. I was four years old

New Hampshire

[Dave Reynolds]

46. Lansing, Michigan

in a house with no heat and full of soot from the furnace fire.

Good times, good times...

[Lisa]

49. Southern Ontario. I was walking home from school after early closing

... and arrived to find my mom deliberating over whether to go to the library volunteers' meeting. Just about then Dad came home early too, with the car. He told her that even if he drove her to the library, even assuming the meeting was still on, by then it would be dark and there might be some trouble getting home because it was getting to the point where you couldn't see the sidewalks. (We were used to whiteouts and winter driving, since the 1970s were colder and snowier than the present day ... but this was an order of magnitude worse.)

So Mom decided not to go. We found out later that a small group of people had been stuck at the library and snowed in until the next morning ... they managed to scrounge enough food out of the staff room fridge for supper (hotdogs or something) and fortunately the building didn't lose power so they weren't too cold.

[Nikia]

52. In rural Ohio, lucky not to have become a vicitm

I was born at the end of December in 1977 so I was a small infant. My parents lived out in the country because it was cheap. The power had gone out in our house. Fearing that we, and especially me, would freeze to death, my parents made a trek across the road to a neighbor's house where they evidently had power. With near zero visibility, my parents, holding me in a blanket, took a half hour to find their way to the neighbors, less than 100 meters away.

[gizmonic]

57. Rockford, Illinois -- I had recently moved to the States...

from England.

Greatest memory I have as a kid was the Blizzard of '78.

:)

[Deep13]

59. Was in 4th or 5th grade.

We had the month of February off.

[Neshanic]

58. My first winter in Arizona in college. Pics from parent in Nwe Jersey

were crazy...drifts 10 feet high.

[Cathyclysmic]

60. Newark, Ohio....

Four years old and the snow was taller then I was. I remember trying to open the sliding glass door and it was frozen shut. No electricity. We cooked hot dogs around the fireplace.

[AlCzervik]

61. best day ever!! It started when i sitting in Ms. Fagan's 5th grade class

at Gleason elementary in Medford Ma. and they let us go early and i remember walking home with my sister and it was really starting to snow hard, sideways even and then we had like a month off.

[meegbear]

62. Lynn MA, 7th grade ...

a week off from school, using my sled to walk to the supermarket with Dad.

Whattah mess.

[cassandra uprising]

63. Taking form as a glob of cells. n/t

[nytemare]

64. If this is the one that hit Maryland, we got about 4 1/2 feet.

My dad made an igloo for me, and I had to make a path for my sheltie Pebbles to walk through.

:D