27 years ago today

[Ed25]

1978 - The worst winter storm of record struck coastal New England. The storm produced 27.5 inches of snow at Boston, and nearly 50 inches in northeastern Rhode Island. The fourteen foot tide at Portland ME was probably the highest of the century. Winds gusted to 79 mph at Boston, and reached 92 mph at Chatham MA. A hurricane size surf caused 75 deaths and 500 million dollars damage. (David Ludlum)

[Skywatch_NC]

Was living in Cincinnati at the time (blizzard happened during my jr. high years) and remember seeing road graders helping out the DOT clear the roads!!

Eric

[Persepone]

I was living in Connecticut and my then 9 year old daughter and I got permission to travel on a closed highway with emergency vehicles sort of "escorting" a small caravan of us to New Haven where I had an elderly aunt who was ill, did not speak English well, and needed food and medicine. They let us drive to a local fire station down the hill from my aunt's and then we got to take food, medicine, etc. up the hill on a sled! It was amazing because it took us about an hour to go a distance that is about a 5 minute walk under normal circumstances. We then sort of "camped out" at my aunt's until we got to go home.

I always seem to be around for the major storms!

[Dave C]

I spent 4 days at home with no school!!!. We had solid 24 + inches heavy wet snow, perfect for snow forts and snowballs!(I broke a neighbors window during one snowball fight).

[HalloweenGale]

I remember it too. Nantucket got snow, then rain, which completely erradicated the snow in a matter of hours!