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Hope you all don't lose power up there tonight and that everyone stays safe.
Hunker down and post some memories of the famous '78 blizzard. I'm conjuring up pictures of Joe Garrahy in his red flannel shirt, and John Ghiorse as a young whippersnapper handling the big snow story.
I remember picking up the kids from school around 2:30 pm that day and was just about the last mom to make it into the subdivision which was on a hill. The cars stayed in the garage for days on end; and we walked through tunnels where we thought the sidewalk was to get to the street. My husband had to shovel a path in the backyard so our dogs could go wee wee. After about 4 days or so of cabin fever, and the guys ran out of beer, neighbors grabbed sleds and made it to the liquor store about 2 miles up the road. The grocery store wasn't open because no deliveries could be made. Guys had ta' do what guys had ta' do !
I was 5 and living in Santa Cruz, CA.. what blizzard?
LOL ! ... when you're laying by the pool sipping a cool one in Vegas you can look back with fond memories of at least one good northeast blast of about 30 inches of frozen water.
LOL ! ... when you're laying by the pool sipping a cool one in Vegas you can look back with fond memories of at least one good northeast blast of about 30 inches of frozen water.
Exactly.. just spent the last few hours re-researching neighborhoods.. dreading going out tomorrow to shovel.. fortunatly my driveway is only 22' long
My mom called the school so I could leave early, I remember thinking that it didn't even look bad in the early afternoon..........several friends wound up getting stuck at school overnight until the national guard got them out.
One of the biggest things I remember was the size of the drifts in the morning after.......and everyone was out walking in the days following.
My parents generation had the great hurricane of 1938 and mine had the blizzard of 78...no comparison as the 38 storm brought so much tragedy, but as far weather events no other storms in the 30 years living in RI compared to the blizzard. We were home for the blizzard of 2010 and that seemed small!
78 Blizz was 3x worse than this.. and we had a Ice Storm that year also,
I was just a kid, but during the ice storm we skated on Cranston Country
Club, the snow was all frozen making the golf course one giant pond
which could be skated on. I still remember the trees were like ice trees.
During the actual blizzard we walked to the old Hillside Dairy on Phenix
Ave, since 1981 it's a church, to get milk and whatever else.
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After about 4 days or so of cabin fever, and the guys ran out of beer, neighbors grabbed sleds and made it to the liquor store about 2 miles up the road. The grocery store wasn't open because no deliveries could be made. Guys had ta' do what guys had ta' do !
