Six Snowbound Days: A Television Chronicle (1978)
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- Watch the WJAR documentary that aired in the days following the Blizzard of '78.
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I love to watch these old broadcasts. It reminds me of the America that existed when I was growing up. A safe, decent place full of normal decent people. News that was more news than propaganda and emotional manipulation.
I miss that place.
Joe Biden is trying to restore what we once had.😆😆😆
Ditto in spades
The 1970’s? Safe? Nostalgia is a hell of a drug haha but I’m glad at least you felt safe and happy in those days.
Yeah def wasn't safer back then. Its just now all the bad news is in your face 24/7
@@averagejoe4932 Well, crime statistics would say youre incorrect, per capita crime has indeed increased. Also Ive been alive and seen the places I love change over my lifetime. Just think of how our mail delivery was set up. For decades it was safe enough to leave packages at ppls doors. Your mail in the mailbox. I wandered for 8 hrs a day loose in the summer, and so did everyones kids. It wasnt bc our parents were too stupid to notice a few of us going missing or molested. Or bc the news didnt cover it.
It covered violent things for weeks bc they were unusual. Now its a new thing every day, thats why we are saturated. Not just bc of bleeds it leads, altho that doesnt help.
Yes, things are objectively worse.
I was 9 years old when this happened. Us kids had the greatest time. I’ll never forget the snow tunnels we built. The entire family was forced to gather in the living room where the fireplace was. Mom cooked everything on the fire. It was like camping until my brother got sick and went into convulsions from a high temperature. I don’t know how dad did it but he drove that 1977 4 door LTD about 10 miles through some of the most frozen roads I’ve ever seen to the hospital.
Same here. Never before or since have I ever experienced making a tunnel that ent straight through the neighborhood.
I remember the blizzard of 78. I was doing my time in Japan. I wish I could go back to the 70s. A great time in America.
My dad and I took his 1969 Ford F 250 and went from Middleboro Ma. To the T station in South Boston. My sister and her best friend were stuck and dad said we need to get them home. We had a wood furnace and a fireplace to heat the house and keep us warm. We had a gas stove and plenty of wood. Thanks dad. Dad was a melt shop foreman at Henry Perkins Foundry in Bridgewater Ma. He went in to make sure things kept working and our family made sure we had the snow moved and plenty of wood to stay warm at home. A great example of a family working together.
Long Live New England
Sounds like your Dad really looked after his family and kept you all warm and safe, hope you and your family have a great Christmas love from Leeds England ❤
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Your Dad was a Dad of the 70s. A real man's man
As a little kid I lived 10 minutes outside Providence and thanks to my Mom and Dad, we were fine. Plenty of food, my Dad had built a wood stove to heat the house with plenty of wood stacked in the cellar and a snowmobile with plenty of gas. I remember riding up and down the street on the back with him checking on neighbors while Mom was at home making sausage and peppers. No idea how lucky I was to grow up in a home where all the basics were covered.
Also, if you want a little time travel trip, go look up the Billboard top 40 from 2/4/78 and let it play in the background while watching this, you can actually taste the hot chocolate and smell the sausage and peppers in the croc pot.
1 STAYIN’ ALIVE -•- Bee Gees
2 2 SHORT PEOPLE -•- Randy Newman
3 5 (Love Is) THICKER THAN WATER -•- Andy Gibb
4 4 WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS / WE WILL ROCK YOU -•- Queen
5 6 JUST THE WAY YOU ARE -•- Billy Joel )
6 8 SOMETIMES WHEN WE TOUCH -•- Dan Hill
7 3 BABY COME BACK -•- Player
8 10 EMOTION -•- Samantha Sang
9 11 DANCE, DANCE, DANCE (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) -•- Chic
10 7 HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE -•- Bee Gees
11 9 YOU’RE IN MY HEART (The Final Acclaim) -•- Rod Stewart
12 12 HEY DEANIE -•- Shaun Cassidy
13 14 SERPENTINE FIRE -•- Earth, Wind and Fire
14 16 I GO CRAZY -•- Paul Davis
15 20 PEG -•- Steely Dan
16 17 DESIREE -•- Neil Diamond
17 19 DON’T LET ME BE MISUNDERSTOOD -•- Santa Esmeralda Starring Leroy Gomez
18 28 LAY DOWN SALLY -•- Eric Clapton
19 21 WHAT’S YOUR NAME -•- Lynyrd Skynyrd
20 22 THEME FROM “CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND” -•- John Williams
21 23 LONG, LONG WAY FROM HOME -•- Foreigner
22 24 NATIVE NEW YORKER -•- Odyssey
23 13 TURN TO STONE -•- Electric Light Orchestra
24 26 TOO HOT TA TROT -•- The Commodores
25 27 FFUN -•- Con Funk Shun
26 29 THEME FROM “CLOSE ENCOUNTERS” -•- Meco
27 33 THUNDER ISLAND -•- Jay Ferguson
28 35 THE NAME OF THE GAME -•- Abba
29 31 HAPPY ANNIVERSARY -•- Little River Band
30 30 LOVELY DAY -•- Bill Withers
31 34 STREET CORNER SERENADE -•- Wet Willie
32 76 NIGHT FEVER -•- Bee Gees
33 53 WONDERFUL WORLD -•- Art Garfunkel with James Taylor and Paul Simon
34 38 THE WAY YOU DO THE THINGS YOU DO -•- Rita Coolidge
35 39 FALLING -•- LeBlanc and Carr
36 40 ALWAYS AND FOREVER -•- Heatwave
37 37 I LOVE YOU -•- Donna Summer
38 51 OUR LOVE -•- Natalie Cole)
39 48 JACK AND JILL -•- Raydio
40 43 GALAXY -•- War
Yeah that's awesome I grew up similarly I was 11 years old when this Blizzard of 1978 hit and we lived in Berkshire County Massachusetts it's Western Mass we had everything too my brother took me all over two towns when the storm hit on the back of its 4:40 blizzard Ski-Doo and I had a 69 bubblehead Olympic one lunger
I can remember my mom's cooking too always coffee going for the grown-ups and hot chocolate for us
And no we did not know how good we had it I'm looking back and I had the best childhood with awesome parents and I love my older brother
@@rickwhite3181 We had a Ski-Doo too! Gold and black, like Pittsburgh Steelers colors. Great times!
@@musicalchairs777 great machines and cool colors
I was in western mass also, i was 15
I was about 9 when this came through, we lived in Somerset MA, just to the east of the Providence area. Out of school all week, but I do not remember ever losing electric power. My dad was one of those stranded truckers, he got stuck on I95 in Connecticut. Took him over a week to get back, until then, just me and mom. After the snow stopped, we went at shoveling the driveway, just a few feet at a time, for days, her with a normal size shovel, me with my more kid size one. Was great fun for a kid and by weeks end we were cutting the now firmed up snow into block like pieces and stacking them to the sides of the drive where we could. My neighborhood was plowed out by big front end loaders and dump trucks that took the show down to the Taunton river. I remember mom and I being amazed as a front end loader went down our street pushing this huge "cigarette" made of snow. That following summer, you would go to the mall and wherever there was a parking lot light pole, you could still see the melting snow that had been piled up at the poles base by plows during the storm cleanup. I was lucky, had a house with a fireplace to stay warm by and my own bed to sleep in, so in a lot of ways, it was mostly a good memory. Still, I always have the utmost sympathy for anyone that goes through such a storm. Now I live in Florida where I just have hurricanes to worry about every year.
And crocodile’s
I spent the Blizzard of ‘78 playing with my Six Million Dollar Man action figure.
Steve Austin.
We were poor I had the 6 dollar man
I had the Bigfoot figure too.
No cell phones back then and we still made it thru! Don't think people would make it thru today. Hardly any self-reliance anymore.
Oh no no wifi!
Yeah, people are fucked w/o their phones these days.
@@forgottengrooves6073 I would argue electricity in general
I was six at the time, still remember how much fun that was. Really outlines the difference between kids and adults.
It wasn’t that fun. The beer selection was very limited during that time period and we were usually stuck with Budweiser.
I remember that, it was great for us kids. Best snow days ever.
I was 35yrs.old living on the Jersey shore 300 ft . from the ocean.The wind blew the snow a quarter mile west.What i remember most was the bitter cold all winter.
We were coming home from the movies at Golden Ring Mall when the snow started. I remember it wasn't melting at all when it fell on the road, . Woke up the next morning to snow more than 3ft. deep and drifts up the entire side of our house. We got the ENTIRE week off of school and had a great time every day. Snow fort's, sledding, car hopping, football games, ALL DAY LONG. Just awesome!!
I was only 3 years old, living in south central Kentucky at the time, but I still remember playing in all that snow and building a snowman in the front yard of our home.
Boy, do I remember that. Originally, the forecast was potential flurries. I was dug out just in time get to the hospital to deliver my beautiful daughter. I could never forget her birthday.
Great story!!
That whole winter was nuts! It was so bitter cold, it wasn't just the snow it was also the arctic temperatures.... it was the only time I can remember
the Chesapeake Bay froze solid. I was in high school at the time and schools were closed for almost a month. Our plumbing froze solid and we didn't
get running water/bathrooms back for several weeks. Very difficult time and not forgotten to this day!
I remember how cold it was in New York. We built an igloo with all of the snow but it was too cold to play in it.
I lived through that 1978 blizzard but I lived in Berkshire County Massachusetts I was 11 years old and my 17 year old brother had a 440 blizzard Ski-Doo and he took me all over we went just riding the main streets everywhere it was a childhood Winter wonderland. My brother was a god to me love that guy
I worked in Communications, at Xerox Corporation. WE were back at it 3 days later, driving through 20 ft deep canyons where streets used to be. On one side were tall buried trees, on the leeward side of the canyons, Hundreds of buried homes for miles. The company Vehicles were Premium Rides in one or 2 year old cars, with Top Quality tires. Thanks Xerox Corp... WE Gotter Done.
It is sad that America has fallen to communism in 2023, with NOW... "Weaponized Weather" Beware the days coming
My Dad lived in B.F.E Indiana at the time.. he went to bed prior to the blizzard, he woke up and his Car was covered in snow.. he thought someone stole his wheels (as he had a Cuda or Nova at the time.) Though his mom traded a neighbor a carton of cigs for a half a side of beef as he was a huge cattle farmer. My grandad managed to get home after work to see Dad and Grandma eating porterhouses (as they only have tomatoes and potatoes from that years garden to sustain themselves prior for bartering for beef.)
We lived right on the ocean just south of Boston, we got 4 feet of ocean water in the living room, we had to evacuate, I was 17 and we all trudged through ocean slush, them through deep Snow to my grandparents house a 1/2 mile away, I'll never forget the fireplace we all huddled around to dry off.
What city waltham mass here I had fun. SHOVELING 😅.
I knew the guy who was trying to get to Greenville, I recognized his car. That’s where we lived. We ended up with 50 inches of snow and 8-15 foot drifts. It took us a few days to shovel out the doors and a week to make a path down the driveway to the street. Thankfully the wind had carved out a spot next to a corner window and we jumped out and started shoveling towards the porch. It was surreal- no school for two weeks
People really pulled together through that mess, true hero’s. anybody that had a 4x4 or sled was asked to help out and they did. I was 12 I’ll never forget that time in central Ohio
We were buried in northern R.I.. I'd never experienced anything like it. I was 25 yrs old with a year old daughter. My husband had to leave his car on the road and somehow walked home to our apartment. He looked like an ice man. That night, we stood looking out from our front window as the snow became a white sheet, howling and screaming like a train. We couldn't see anything but snow, not even the street lights. Thank goodness we'd stocked up on everything. We expected maybe 8 inches , and got 5 feet.
I think our history is being tweaked with because all the analysts say it was no more than 10-20inches. But Most real people that I've talked to said it was several ft of snow the biggest they've ever seen.
@@zelowatch30The gale force winds created huge drifts everywhere. So the reality was several feet of snow, no matter how much "officially" fell.
@@marine4lyfe85 Definitely. There were drifts so high people were afraid to go outside. I believe it was a 2 to 4 ft range of actual snow.
I was in Forestdale,Rhode Island visiting my 1975 Army friend. It was at his parents house and they let me stay an extra 3 days. I was hitchhiking back to Vermont and that was another adventure!
I was 12 years old in Massachusetts and had two weeks off from school.
I was 9 and I think we had two weeks off as well in Southborough.
Lived through the Blizzard of 78 in Central Ohio as an 11 year old. When we went to bed it was in the 40's and rainy, then in the morning our power was off, and when Mom tried to open the front door, it was jammed up with a snow drift. We were out of school for a week, and had a good time digging tunnels in the snow.
I was 12, man what a wild time that was. We had a generator Dad back fed into the furnace so we had neighbors from both sides riding it out with us. We thought it was exciting but it was more dangerous than we knew. We got bussed to Mohawk on Livingston down by children’s hospital. It was called school without schools, I guess Mohawk had a coal fired boiler, yay 🙄 I wish I was 12 again regardless of what went on, being old is no fun.
I was 19 and after a few days the local police came to bring me the two miles into work at the county nursing home. The staff had been stranded three days at work and if I could get to the highway they could get me there to care for the residents. Crazy time I will never forget!
Same age as when this occurred. I remember opening the front door and the door literally was almost closed by snow. You couldn’t hardly see out of it and I remember the snow Forts finally :-)
I lived in Indy when this came through. It was unbelievable. Biggest snow I've ever seen. Nothing even close to this.
I remember! Best week ever as a kid!
I’m amazed that people today STILL don’t stock up for the winter in areas like this where winter is expected to be bad.
Nom nom.
But they have plenty of stuff. So much in fact that they can't get to park their cars inside of their garages. They also have stuff in storage units that they pay fees for. Unfortunately, none of it is edible.
@@randymillhouse791😅
I've lived in Upper Michigan my whole life. It's really not too bad. Even when we get the occasional 20"+ blizzard. It's kind of just pretty to watch. You just hope your boss isn't mad when you can't get to work because you can't see your hand in front of your face
Are you kidding… one snowflake and they’re running to the store for bread and milk 😂😂😂
We lived in Cumberland, and I worked at the IMH and went to work, Monday morning, and was stuck at work until early Saturday morning, when my husband was able pick me up.
I was almost 11 years old and living in Woonsocket. What a Storm got something like 50 inches!
It seems like everybody was 11 that year. That would make you 57.
I was in Indiana. We dug a path out to the street. The plow came along and filled in the hole. The ice drift didn’t melt until spring.
I was 14 years old and New Jersey and the way the weather is going it wouldn't surprise me if it happened again.
I was 17, it was the best winter of my life. I keep hoping we will have another one like it, but it hasn’t happened yet 😢
In Connecticut Governor Grasso shutdown the highways, and we didn’t have the fiasco that RI and Mass had. Cars, not the snow was the problem. Oh BTW 1977-1978 was a El Niño year…just like 2023-24…So you never know history might repeat itself.
Ella Grasso!
Those were Fine Words spoken by the Reporter in the closing of this vidio.
I was 11 and lived in Indiana at this time and we were also hit with a blizzard.
We made tunnels to go from one house to the street and beyond.
We ate potato soup. Never touched the stuff since.
Between my house and the candy store, there was a railroad bridge and it formed an Icicle underneath the pass that didn't fully melt until 3 years later. Always blew my mind.
I live in Central Indiana,back then.I remember the blizzard of 1978.Lot's of snow and wind.
I was 11 1/2 when this happened. We went to school on Monday and did not go back until next Monday. We had a D8 bulldozer plow our street.
Living in Wrentham,Ma, I was told we got 44 inches.
“It was a awesome, frightening and in a twisted way, beautiful sight…”
What a quote after talking about those that died. Although in todays standards that would be called upon, it showed the unique ability of local journalism to capture the scene everyone saw. A more honest journalism age in our country.
@23:21
I lived on Smith Hill then. ! block from rt95. Crazy times. Loved living in Providence back then
I heard about this but never got a chance to really know what really happened! Thanks for the video. It was sad times.
I remember that storm very well! We had a party at the big top shelter house that first night! Had a wonderful time and have fond memories of this!!!! !!!!!!
Barely got home on that Monday in Attleboro area thanks to tire chains. Something like this will never happen again because of incredibly improved weather forecasting.
Seriously? They never get anything right anymore
Surprise storms like this still happen.
At almost 14 years old, I was sledding off of our roof on the East side of our family home where the drift reached the gutter. Under that drift we dug out a network of tunnels in which we lit & heated with many of Mother’s candles. While hearing complete deafening silence we couldn’t help but notice.
It’s December 2023 - no snow in Boston
I was a Paramedic for the City of Portland Maine!!! I spent all of my time responding with the Coast Guard Rescuing
people out of stranded vehicles & Distressed ships out on the ocean!! We even got assistance from National Guard.
we even had the luxury of snow mobiles from a Local Dealer. The City of Portland Airlifted my Family to the Maine
Medical Center.
I’ll never forget this storm and its impacts on us …I was living in Lawrence MA at the time and we got buried it was a really crazy time….couldn’t get out for a week ….course we were happy about not having school and midterm exams lol
My family was driving home from the movies that Sunday night. I remember the snow was not melting on the roads, it looked more like sand swirling around as cars drove thru it. By the time we got home (30 minutes) snowfall had doubled. Half hour later (11:00pm) we heard that schools were closed (I was in 6th grade)for Monday and they ended up staying closed for the whole week! For us kids it was awesome, amazing, unbelievable. It cost us our entire spring break that year but we didn't care, not even a little bit.
The only day my dad didn't get out to go to work. Except vacations. My dad didn't swear alot but that day he swore alot.
i spent the night on I-75 just outside toledo, OH in the car with my folks. we were coming home from Akron to Michigan
This is the New England Blizzard of 1978, Feb 6-7th, Not the Ohio River Valley Jan 26-27 1978.
Lived in va and will never forget.
Extreme weather and not one mention of climate change. How incredibly refreshing. Miss the days of normality.
Agreed
They were talking about the climate changing but back then they were saying it was the return of the Little Ice Age just like in 1977.
@@janetoconnor3636 nope
Exxon scientists knew 60 years ago that burning fossil fuels was warming the earth but swept it under the rug. Stop with the idiocy please!
Despite current reports, the city of Woonsocket received 54" of standing snow. Drifts were another story. Main thoroughfares were reduced to walking paths the width of a toboggan as people trudged to local stores for whatever provisions they could find. Gratefully, the beer supply held out.
The city of Buffalo, NY offered heavy equipment when Gov. Garrahy was informed of surplus payloaders, graders and bulldozers in storage at Quonset Navy warehouses. After a week of walking and snowmobiling, snow compacted in the streets. Plows and payloaders broke up slabs of solid snow 18" thick.
Those poor people. Especially the elderly. I feel for those stuck in cars. If i lived there i would have several blankets and lots of junk food in my car at all times and several pillows. Lots of soft drinks back then too or juice. That was before bottled water. Imagine having to get out of the car to potty in that weather !
I remember it well. Was driving for Roadway Express (domiciled in Cincinnati, Ohio) and was dispatched to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It was raining and very warm when I left the terminal with instructions to "call Columbus" when I got to Old Washington, Ohio, to the truck stop there. It was puzzling, because I was not domiciled in Columbus, but I followed instructions, stopped and called. I will NEVER FORGET the voice of the Columbus dispatcher! He sounded panic-stricken and told me to listen carefully: Use the bathroom, get food and drink "to go", get back in my truck and NOT STOP until I reached the destination! The snowstorm was just an hour behind me, but it didn't catch me. However, when I reached Harrisburg, drivers there were snowed in for FIVE DAYS! When we were released to return home, conditions weren't bad until coming out of the "hole in the wall" and entering Ohio. At that point, the whole world turned white. It looked like truck and cars had had someone cover their drivers' eyes because they just drove off the roads and into the ditches! Remember that this was days AFTER the blizzard, but it still looked like another world. When I finally got home to the Cincinnati Roadway terminal, my station wagon (which happened to be white in color!) had been parked next to a van and had been completely drifted over. It took hours to dig out my vehicle, then more hours to get home and shovel my driveway! Do I remember the Blizzard of '78? You bet I do! Months afterward, the highway signs on Interstate 75 from Lima to Toledo still had snowdrifts deep enough that the red, white and blue highway "shield" markers were barely visible! The photo is of my folks' home north of Dayton, Ohio.
I was 17 and we got 4' of ocean water in our living room, we live right on the coast south of Boston, luckily Grandma's house was 1/4 mile away up on a hill, we all left together, trudging through knee deep slush, but they had a fireplace.
Weird that Tom Brokaw was on the air televising this storm celebrating his 38th birthday.
Why is it weird?
Graduated in '78 from Tolman HS Pawtucket RI, had many school days off from that storm :)
I lived on Park Avenue in Worcester, above Leitrims Pub. There were cars parked on side streets that never got shoveled out until late March. Snow drifts were up to third floor windows on one side and bare ground on the other.
My roommate had done a project with the city civil defense and they called him to ask if he would volunteer to work the phones dispatching National Guard trucks to respond to emergencies delivering staff and patients to hospitals, taking people to shelters. We walked a mile and a quarter to get to Lincoln Auditorium. It was a wild couple days. Lots of strange phone calls.
Lots of people got unemployment checks because the state was shut down.
People were cross country skiing and driving snowmobiles on city streets.
I knew people who were in the food service at a local college that stayed at work for four days with no change of clothes.
When I got back to work the first thing they had me do was shovel a trench through 3-6 feet of snow about 50 feet long to get to the fire hydrant.
Watching this 40+years after we moved to FL. Never been back. Don’t care to ever see snow again!!
Rhode Island!! What about Michigan!? We got hammered. I remember this. I was 15. No power. No heat. No water. But we made it through it
I'm from New Jersey and I was 12 years old when this happened. The city where we lived back than got two and half feet of snow. It snow from February 5 to February 7. The cars where completely cover with snow you couldn't tell where was your car.😅
We haven't have one like it after that.
23:19 I hope that whomever shot and/or edited this segment never lacked for work again. Music to match the quiet devastation the storm had left behind was Class A.
I survived the blizzard of 78. You bet 👍
Too bad you didn't print and sell t-shirts that said, "I survived the Blizzard of '78".
I wonder if ANY of these people became preppers after this, just so they could be more resilient after a storm like this? My Dad was born a farm boy during the Great Dust Bowl in OK and then was a career Military man, he taught ALL of his kids to be prepared for ANYTHING. I hated learning about it as a kid, but man it saved my butter well more than once in my life! I'm watching these storm vids and checking winter supplies as I do. Good motivator.
I lived in Warwick in Oakland Beach and 😢😢😢😢😢😢😮😮😮😮. I didn't think it would ever stop!! The national guard had to bring my Mom to work at the Jewish Home for the Aged on 99 hillside Ave in Providence. It was Treacherous!!
I played with the Sears Telegames during snow closure days. You may recognize it as also called Atari. The Sears unit had three sets of controls instead of two per side and it had a teak wood fascia, along with brushed aluminum paneling between the controls. It was a higher-end unit. "Sold only at Sears"
We were snowed in the apartment complex for days, couldn't get out. Local TV stayed on late playing movies. They called it "Cabin Fever Theater".
People shared their food and booze in my apartment building, it was a giant party.
I was 10 years old but lived in Pawcatuck, CT when the Blizzard of 78 hit New England, just remembered eating fluffer nutter sandwiches 🥪 and drinking allot of hot chocolate 🫕🍫 , building snow forts and snow ❄️❄️ ball fights good times - no school lol
Schools in Mass. were closed for at least 2 weeks.
Me and my brothers had to shovel our way out of our front door. We had 2 sets of stairs so it somewhat resembled an igloo and we had a kerosene heater in the living room...everyone slept in the living room together.❤
I lived in Lowell Mass. When it came to us.😮😮😮
This is so interesting. News was serious and to the point. None of this drama, back ground music, gasping, overly expressive talking heads dressed like Ken and Barbie. Just straight news. We need that again everywhere.
I was 11 when this happened. Our primary house was in NC but we were had a vacation home in Miami. When my dad heard about this storm we ended vacation early. I remember seeing snow covered interstates in Jacksonville FL. Trucks and cars all over the place. When we hit Georgia mom wanted to stop and get a room. We tried several hotels but everything was full. My dad finished out the drive home. It normally took 12 to 14 hours depending on how many stops we took, usually me having to use the restroom, but that trip seemed like 24 hours although I was nervous i never once opened my mouth about having to stop. My dad being in the USAF gave me a bottle and said, "you'll figure out what to do with it." Necessity is the mother of invention 😂
I was I was 10! Loved every minute
Sadly we can still have some of those same negative things that happened then continue happening now without any snow on the ground. And a further sadness comes to my heart seeing another blizzard like that not returning yet. If one happened like that every year we would adapt very well to it.
I was 11 years old in a state west of Rhode Island and I experienced some of that myself. "Oh my long-suffering soul wishes for the days to become cold... "
I wasnt born until 1981! but everytime cape cod had a snowstorm,my grandparents would tell me about the blizzard of 78" and I thought they were just embellishing to scare me but looking at pictures/videos..Holy Shit That must have been scary as Hell!
I was attending Tiverton middle school that year. The TV weatherman Sunday night had predicted a big snowstorm for Monday morning. I woke up and looked out my bedroom window , it was gray and drizzling. Pretty typical, so off to school I went. Midmorning, I remember looking out the window of Social Studies class, and the first few flakes started. Didn't think anything of it. Off we went to P.E. class, indoors. At the end of class as I was getting dressed, the vice-principal came on the PA. "Due ta da stawm conditions, ahhhhh school is bein' dismissed early." We all went down the hall to the window and it was total white out. The bus dropped me off one block from home, and I could barely see a few feet in front of me. Made it home covered in icicles. A whole week off from school!
When this happens in Canada we get our shovels out of the trunk. Our winters in the 60s and 70s used to be mostly like that. Don't remember everything shutting down-- maybe in Toronto but not north where I lived.
I do not want people to die or be stuck in cars for days. But I want snowstorms like this! I am a sicko and believe that snow shoveling is a great workout and would love to put in my snowshoes and walk around my neighborhood in Connecticut.😊 PS I am no spring chicken at 66.
I remember in elementary school, we actually had to attend school on Saturdays for half a day here in Southeast Kentucky. As a child, it totally sucked because by the time we got home, the cartoons were already over.
In Indiana, we didn't go back for a solid month, but we paid dearly that following Summer.
I have kin in Knox Co I never did I ask them how it was down that way, we were too damn BZ here in central Ohio. I sure wish I was 12 again I know that, 57 ain’t much fun.
@@deborahchesser7375oh yes, Knox county the next county over. We went until June. Otherwise we would not have gotten out until July. Had we not went on Saturdays. Back then we didn't start our school years until September though.
@@godspirate6250I could not imagine how difficult it was for you all up north.
@@garylefevers potato soup all winter.
Rode this out in a hotel in Armonk, NY. Played a LOT of 8 ball.
We had more snow here in Cape Breton the other week. 150cm in three days. allot of us were trapped in our homes for 4 days to over a week depending on who you were.
I remember that storm. I live in western mass not far from boston. The state was essencially closed.
Oh wow a very young Tom Brokaw.
Lookie here! A big storm! That was probably global warmin' back then.
No people had sense back then.
I was only 5 but I remember this blizzard. Snow drifts went to the roof of the house.
The blizzard of 1978 OR the heat wave of 2013?? Your choice! Can always find another blanket or hot drink but NO escaping the heat!!
I remember that day, i was 13 the best day of my life ;p the fun i had.
Im a literal product of the Blizzard of ‘78.
Westerly, RI. Date of birth?
November 15, 1978. Dark days of history.
East Providence - I was 9. We had to crawl out the upstairs fire escape to dig out the front door.
The mid Atlantic had a terrible Blizzard in Feb 1979.
That was an intense but compact coastal bomb back then for the Mid-Atlantic especially the Washington DC area and Baltimore, This here in the north-mid Atlantic to New England was larger.
I was 2 yo ... I have pictures of me and my parents and sister with national gaurd soldiers ....
The governor looks a little like Rodney Dangerfield.
He gets no respect at all. He called his dentist and told him his teeth were turning yellow. His dentist told him to wear a brown necktie
I finished paying off my plow truck because of the blizzard ! White gold !
I was born during this mess in NYC! ☃️
its funny to watch the low level storm maps! LOLOL. Now we have these Huge screens, 3 dimensional, color, etc..
Weather maps with hand-drawn numbers and symbols seems so quaint now. But it makes me miss those simpler times. 45 years ago but the way things are in this Brave New World, it might as well be centuries.
I remember the blizzard in Indiana. I was 15
I remember when that happened… most people didn’t have 4wd… and most people were stuck! Back then 4wd was considered a luxury, it just wasn’t common.
1978, best zombie movie ever made to this day is from this year- "Dawn of The Dead" feom George A. Romero. I wasn't even born for another four years, but man I wish I had been around to see the 50s, 60s and 70s... I love watching these older films, and I am an armchair weather nut... so this video seems perfect! God, I'm weird. 😂 But I love it.
16 year old, New Haven, CT. Remeber it well. iirc the Hartford Civic Center collapsed shortly thereafter.
and this is why folks should prep.