I remember it. We lived in Newport, Rhode Island, at the time. My mother, brother, and I sat in the kitchen, using the oven for heat, playing Monopoly, for days.
Wiki has separate entries for
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeastern_United_States_Blizzard_of_1978
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Blizzard_of_1978