The Great Long Island Blizzard of 1978 in Massapequa

In 1978, I got the greatest birthday present an 11 year old could want. THE ENTIRE WEEK OFF FROM SCHOOL, without being sick!!!! I believe snow started to fall Sunday by Monday morning we were burried. I remember my mom had the old radio tuned into WGBB and i was waiting with breathless anticipation. As the announcer was rolling through the school closings, i heard the four greatest words that sounded like words from heaven... "Massapequa school district closed". Enjoy my birthday present from 1978.

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• blizzards
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• massapequa
• extreme weather
• drifts
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[hibiscusfreak]

@undescoldmind LOL, 'tickled pink' means ecstatic, thrilled, happy, etc.

[undescoldmind]

@hibiscusfreak tickled pink? lol. is that slang for "told?"

[hibiscusfreak]

I remember this very well! I was 16 and was also tickled pink that school was shut down. I have pictures of walls of snow piled all along the entire length of my street and the huge yellow bulldozers that piled them there.

[sail027li]

This looks like the end of the 2nd storm - Feb. 7th 1978. The Jan. 20th storm didn't have this much snow.

[DTD110865]

Was this the one on January 20, or February 6?

[daddyoh51]

I worked at Nassau County Medical Center in East Meadow. My wife who was pregnant with our first child worked at the hospital also. We got stuck at the hospital for 3 days as no other staff could come in to work. The cafeteria ran out of supplies. Some staff members took cafeteria trays and went sledding down the hill by the ER. When we finally got out, the snow was piled so high on Hempstead tpke. you couldn't see the stores from the road.

[ilovsaw]

My Dad told me about this; he had the whole week off as well.

[bckelly63]

I grew up in Massapequa Park and remember that storm very well! I was 14. I grew up on Garfield St. and live in the Hudson Valley now.