The Blizzard of ‘78, 35 Years Ago Many New Englanders will remember the Blizzard of 1978, a destructive and record-setting nor’easter which first struck the region on February 6, 1978. View of Route 128 South in Needham, Massachusetts, Following the Blizzard of 1978, 02/1978 via the National Archives at Boston Without a doubt the Blizzard was a catastrophic and tragic storm.  But anyone young enough at the time that they didn’t have to help shovel probably remembers it as the most amazing snowstorm ever (the Today’s Document team included). Do you remember the Blizzard of ‘78 — or what was the biggest snowstorm in memory?
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The Blizzard of ‘78, 35 Years Ago

Many New Englanders will remember the Blizzard of 1978, a destructive and record-setting nor’easter which first struck the region on February 6, 1978.

View of Route 128 South in Needham, Massachusetts, Following the Blizzard of 1978, 02/1978

via the National Archives at Boston

Without a doubt the Blizzard was a catastrophic and tragic storm.  But anyone young enough at the time that they didn’t have to help shovel probably remembers it as the most amazing snowstorm ever (the Today’s Document team included).

Do you remember the Blizzard of ‘78 — or what was the biggest snowstorm in memory?

Source: research.archives.gov

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  1. abundanceofcalm reblogged this from todaysdocument and added:
    I was 7 and I recall my dad shoveling our walk way to the driveway until it was a snow corridor, taller than his own...
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  4. iheart-ed-small answered: yes, i was 7 years old at the time and both pairs of grandparents moved in with us because they lost power.
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  6. butterfaceperson101 answered: yea that was fun, wasn’t even born in 78 but it was fun when it happened bc got to sky in the middle of the street. was fun…sure miss that.
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  15. vermilionink answered: One of my very very earliest memories is of sledding down giant snowpile mountains on Varick St, I think after this storm. :D
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  17. mrhjelmar reblogged this from realcityonline and added:
    I remember it well I was 18
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