I lived in Pawcatuck, CT nextdoor to Westerly, RI and I was 11 years old in 78 , 56 now and I just remember snowbanks at like 7 feet tall with snow drifts and no school for like almost 2 weeks 😁 lot's of sledding and snow ball fights 😂😊
Forget 78, Im still amazed how old a news program from 2003 looks. Granted most of the imagery is from 78, but still. I was a Junior at Toll Gate HS in Warwick when this aired, probably smoking a small bowl pack of marijuana, smoking cigs i got from the Arabs at the Gulf gas station in Apponaug (now a Cumberland Farms)and playing my PlayStation 2. Most likely sitting alone, thinking about a crush on a girl I would never talk to, and continually skipping school as I became more and more of a social recluse. That and the invasion of Iraq was 2003 in a nut shell.
I was 12 when this happened. It was the week before February vacation. So we had the week of the storm out of school, then the following week because of February vacation. Great times when you're a kid. I was living in Cumberland, and our house had a very small yard, 1/4 of an acre I think. Took me 3 hours to walk across it... dug some pretty cool tunnels between our parked cars and the house. Made a lot of money shoveling neighbors' houses as well...
The snowstorm started Monday. It went through Tuesday. My car is stuck on the highway until Friday morning. I think they did an awesome job definitely. 👍🇺🇸🙏🏼
We lived in Cumberland, RI, and I worked at the IMH, in Cranston. I went to work, Monday a.m. and the storm hit about mid morning. Some folks were able to leave but I was acting RN supervisor, and stayed there. An LPN made it in to work for the afternoon shift, but that was about all we had, as nurses. We usually had 5 attendants, at the Multihandicapped Dix building, that had 4 units of patients, 2 male and 2 female. We worked it out so that each unit had 2 people working and 1 resting. When that person got up, they went to work, and another of the three went on break. We kept that up for days, until some folks began to arrive at the building, Wednesday and Thursday. The LPN and I kept working from Monday, to the evening of Tuesday, and finally took a break, one at a time. We had to pass medications, 4 times each day, and make rounds, to be sure everyone was ok. I'll never forget that week. I didn't get home until Saturday.
I can never ever forget this day. It was so bad I never thought I would see so much snow in my lifetime. What was amazing was how everyone helped each other the way it should be definitely I got stuck on 195 Fox point just before I had to exit to change to go to East Providence, my mom in on staying in the car until the next morning then we walk to Saint Francis church in Ponce wine stayed here for a couple of hours. It was so busy with a lot of people there we decided to walk a couple of miles to her girlfriends house. We stay there with them until Friday when Jay said on the news that we could pick up on cars on the highway that Friday, and was so nice of Emma and Matthew Coelho that lived in Fox point on Ives Street that took us and kept us warm that house. They were amazing family. God bless them in May. God bless everyone that had to go through that. 👍🇺🇸🙏🏼
I lived in Pawcatuck, CT nextdoor to Westerly, RI and I was 11 years old in 78 , 56 now and I just remember snowbanks at like 7 feet tall with snow drifts and no school for like almost 2 weeks 😁 lot's of sledding and snow ball fights 😂😊
Forget 78, Im still amazed how old a news program from 2003 looks. Granted most of the imagery is from 78, but still. I was a Junior at Toll Gate HS in Warwick when this aired, probably smoking a small bowl pack of marijuana, smoking cigs i got from the Arabs at the Gulf gas station in Apponaug (now a Cumberland Farms)and playing my PlayStation 2. Most likely sitting alone, thinking about a crush on a girl I would never talk to, and continually skipping school as I became more and more of a social recluse. That and the invasion of Iraq was 2003 in a nut shell.
They dudes loved their toupees back then.
I was 12 when this happened. It was the week before February vacation. So we had the week of the storm out of school, then the following week because of February vacation. Great times when you're a kid. I was living in Cumberland, and our house had a very small yard, 1/4 of an acre I think. Took me 3 hours to walk across it... dug some pretty cool tunnels between our parked cars and the house. Made a lot of money shoveling neighbors' houses as well...
The snowstorm started Monday. It went through Tuesday. My car is stuck on the highway until Friday morning. I think they did an awesome job definitely. 👍🇺🇸🙏🏼
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We lived in Cumberland, RI, and I worked at the IMH, in Cranston. I went to work, Monday a.m. and the storm hit about mid morning. Some folks were able to leave but I was acting RN supervisor, and stayed there. An LPN made it in to work for the afternoon shift, but that was about all we had, as nurses. We usually had 5 attendants, at the Multihandicapped Dix building, that had 4 units of patients, 2 male and 2 female. We worked it out so that each unit had 2 people working and 1 resting. When that person got up, they went to work, and another of the three went on break. We kept that up for days, until some folks began to arrive at the building, Wednesday and Thursday. The LPN and I kept working from Monday, to the evening of Tuesday, and finally took a break, one at a time. We had to pass medications, 4 times each day, and make rounds, to be sure everyone was ok. I'll never forget that week. I didn't get home until Saturday.
I can never ever forget this day. It was so bad I never thought I would see so much snow in my lifetime. What was amazing was how everyone helped each other the way it should be definitely I got stuck on 195 Fox point just before I had to exit to change to go to East Providence, my mom in on staying in the car until the next morning then we walk to Saint Francis church in Ponce wine stayed here for a couple of hours. It was so busy with a lot of people there we decided to walk a couple of miles to her girlfriends house. We stay there with them until Friday when Jay said on the news that we could pick up on cars on the highway that Friday, and was so nice of Emma and Matthew Coelho that lived in Fox point on Ives Street that took us and kept us warm that house. They were amazing family. God bless them in May. God bless everyone that had to go through that. 👍🇺🇸🙏🏼