Blizzard of 1978

The Blizzard of 1978 happened 30 years ago next week, and residents of the South Shore of Boston and Southeastern Massachusetts remember it as if it were yesterday. The Patriot Ledger and The Enterprise asked people, from fire chiefs to commuters caught in the storm's fury, what stories they still tell about it. The storm began on Feb. 6, 1978 and just wouldn't quit.

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[Seer11665]

I was in 6 grade, and stuck in school and didn't get home until around 8:00 clock at night we had lost power at home and my mother had the house lit with candles. But being a kid I love all the snow.

[EdM021]

That's "my family house." Arrrrgh! Computer dyslexia!!

[EdM021]

115 MPH on First Cliff Scituate. That's a Category 3 Hurricane! And I heard the blizzard had an eye, too, just like a regular hurricane and the Portland Gale of 1898.. I was 17 living in family house in Scituate Centre at the time. Lucky all we got up there was a lot of snow. I mean, two to three FEET of snow! Everybody who lived east of Hatherly Road down by the beach from Minot to Light House Point were devistated by the storm surge.

[64delftlover]

Looking at this, I realize that as a 14 year old freshman at NHS I didn't have a clue. I remember it as fun, and somehow my Dad and I set out in the dodge dart and made it to Scituate. I remember it being bad, but looking at it now, it was absolute devastation! I remember that week as being one of the most fun times of my life. I returned to get Married at the lighthouse in 06, and moved back in 2009, a new empty nester, and my husband heard the story, but this footage tells it better.

[robynlor]

I was 14 y.o. and a resident of Everett. It was a BLAST...we had over two weeks off school, and did a lot of sledding!!! I remember the 10' snow drifts!! We had to walk anywhere we needed to go...but I always loved walking in the snow.

[yucchhiiowwee]

HEY...Lol, The kids were having a BLAST!! They were LOVIN it!!! I was in Brockton, and I was out walking around in the middle of it. A friend of mine that I knew from High school was in the national gaurd, he was driving a gaurd truck and stopped to pick me up and drove me to a friends house where I stayed during the rest of the storm. I was walking on snowmobile tracks. I'm in Nashville, TN now and if they got this, HANG IT UP!!!

[jankafka1]

I had moved from Scituate by then, but still had friends there. I remember this.

[nanbourg]

i was living in n andover. like it was said tobogans to the liquer store. think it was the only store open.

[Pegbur]

My goodness:

1. Approx. 10,000 people were forced into shelters.

2. 2,500 houses were damaged.

3. 54 people died.

4. $2.3 billion worth of damage.



[Pegbur]

I remember that. I was 17 years old. See on our street nothing was ruined, so I never knew things were that bad any where else. I went outside and all the snow had been plowed up against the telephone poles almost to the top. And it was unusually warm considering all that snow. I climbed to the top of a snow bank, the top of a telephone pole.