Posted on 02/08/2015 3:00:47 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Red Hampshire towns are already whining about their snow removal budgets...it's winter. Deal with it.
I was in the USN at the time, and had been on a deployment to the Med and returned to the states a couple of weeks after the Blizzard of ‘78m, and got some leave to come home.
As my plane flew into Logan, we came in from the south over Hull, and those areas. As I looked out the window, I noticed huge, conically shaped piles of stones, timber and other rubble.
I had no idea. I was completely clueless. On the ship, they used to distribute a little newsletter that gave news headlines, but I stopped reading it after a while. I had no idea there had been this huge storm.
It is not even snowing in much of Red Hampshire at the moment...whatever fine granular flakes are falling right now aren’t even showing up on radar. They may get socked with 6 to 10 tomorrow, but that is much less than the 10 - 18 inches they were originally forecasting.
I was born in 1966 so I remember Winter of 1976/77 too with the below zero temps and we had trouble getting natural gas from New Orleans to Pittsburgh and other places north. School was cancelled for a total of two weeks because of the gas and the weather. We went until June 16th. I remember the snows of that winter as well as 1977/78. 1978/79, I also remember the ice storms too, falling on my butt.
I'm originally from North Haven, CT
Spent a lot of time with my twins at Sleeping Giant State Park.
I was living in Milford, CT during the blizz...had a wonderful time with my daughters. (We were fully supplied with all our needs)
FMCDH(BITS)
That is precisely my memory as well.
It took me two old days to shovel my father out,after which I was as sore as I ever was during Army Basic Training.The day after I finished I walked for several hours to 128 and walked right in the middle of it.By that time most of the stranded cars had been removed.
Fortunately for my disabled father we never lost power for if we had he would have lost heat as well.
We built tunnels to the shed- rabbits froze - only time we ever had a dog in the house - truckers parked under the overpasses got snowed in and died of co poisoning - I was about 10-11 in a small Indiana town
I was at a boarding school in Andover, MA (same one as all the Bushes went to) during the blizzard.
I think we got 30 inches of snow and they cancelled school for a day. We were asked to help shovel snow.
It really didn’t leave much of an impression on me, but I didn’t have to drive anywhere. We were back in classes the next day.
Please, where have you seen/heard Bastardi’s predictions?
Each Saturday, a thread with a link is posted on FR. Search for joe bastardi in the Title. Joe’s site is weatherbell.com.
Yes, I saw the Bastardi thread yesterday.
Quite a storm. But everytime I see those pictures, music from the BeeGees starts going through my head because it was the peak of the Saturday Night Fever craze and that music was played nonstop on all the radio stations. I think the BeeGees had 6 hits in the Top 10 at the time. Either songs they performed or wrote.
Some odd memories. Lobsters by the thousands being washed up on Revere Beach. People were down the the beach stuffing them into Hefty trash bags and taking them home to eat. Despite all the warnings not to not eat them, I don't remember anybody getting sick. There were entire neighborhoods that were under sea level and the Coast Guard had boats going down the streets to rescue people.
I remember the side streets did not get plowed out for a week. All the neighbors on my street got together to shovel out our street to the main road so that an ambulance or fire truck could come through if needed. Nobody had snowblowers in those days. National Guard trucks came to plow and the snowbanks along the streets were well over my head - and I was already six feet tall at the time.
Days later, as the snow started to melt, I saw a large box protruding from one of those snowbanks. I dug it out and it was a carton of York Peppermint Patties. 144 of them. Have no idea how they came to be there but I took them home and it took me about a month to eat them all.
His comment about Phila has been spared so far, but you will get yours soon.
>Give up liberty for safety.<
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Especially when that safety is assured by a muzzie?
Lived in Allentown for 30 years. Now in western VA. I recall many a Nor’easter up there. One winter we got 80+ inches total. That year we had snow as late as April.
Then, before he could get out of the cab, a city snow plow came along and shoved a pile of snow off the road and down the embankment and buried the truck completely.
They rescued him two days later.
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