31 years ago today, the NE Blizzard of 1978 struck.

Anyone living in New England at the time likely remembers. We lived right on the water and it was days before we had power or our streets got plowed. Our next door neighbor lost a storm wall that had cost them (at that time) in the tens of thousands to put up to stop cliff erosion.

I remember being a very scared 6 year old.

It clipped NJ pretty hard. Hurricane winds and about two feet of snow in record time. Lost power for a day, IIRC.

How much snow did you get in Mass?

Any time the wind would die down, we'd all be out shoveling our walk and porch. Our great dane slept on my bed every night anyway, so I had no problems staying warm when I slept.

We lived right on the water down towards the Cape, so I think we got hit the hardest.

We lived about a mile from the beach where route 1A flooded and houses fell into the water.

Maine wasn't hit hard by the storm and our roads were clear and passable by the next day. However, we couldn't GO anywhere. The interstates were closed all around Eastern Mass and the Portland airport only had flights connecting out of Logan.

When I-95 and I-90 reopened it was still a mess.

I only saw pictures of it on TV though. I lived in a brick house back then.

I was an eighth grader living on Long Island. We were out of power for about a week, and it was very cold. The only heat we had was from running the oven. First few days, we spent a lot of time in the kitchen. When the tiles started popping off the kitchen floor (the house was contracting, the tiles weren't), we stayed at my grandmother's apartment in Brooklyn (she was in Florida at the time).

My first blizzard.
whew

lots of snow drifts. For the only time in my entire life the door to our backyard was literally snowed shut (that was probably about a 12 ft drift). Our dog who ran away if you let him out without a leash was playing in the yard cause he couldn't go anywhere. We made a pit in the snow for him.

I was quite young at the time, but I remember that it seemed to go on forever.

we lived about 12 miles south of Hartford at the time. I'm sure school was canceled and all, but I do not remember any big hardships.

I remember going to live with my grandparents for several days after the infamous ice storm a few years before that - we lived there because they had a fireplace and we did not. The schools in my hometown of Cromwell were 1 of 3 in the whole state that were open, but since we could not make it back to Cromwell, we did not go (oddly, the school superintendent was from Jamaica - you would have thought he would cancel at the first flakes) I still remember the radio announcer (Bob Steele?) saying that he was not going to read a list of cancellations - just saying that Cromwell, and two towns down near the shore had school, everybody else was postponed.

who weren't even born in 1978.

He had come up from Virginia and thought winters up here were always like that. Which begs the question - why in God's name did he stay?!?!?

I was 15 and remember shoveling snow that was deeper than I was tall... :wow:

I have a memory of my mother walking through a milder blizzard pulling my 3 yr old brother and myself in a sled. She needed to get essentials from the corner store and my father had disappeared with the car. She was 23 and 6 months pregnant.

I vaguely remember the bigger series of blizzards. I was also 6.

:hi:

edited to add: Something i did not know...The lowest atmospheric pressure ever recorded in the United States, apart from a tropical system, occurred as the storm passed over Cleveland, Ohio. Cool.

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