not to switch topics....
but i remember a bigger blizzard than 78...  ok
it was in the late 50's early 60's  .....i remember it
because when we opened the front door to the house
(it opened inwards) there was a wall of snow  
you couldn't even see outside  ,,,just a huge snow drift.
Hood milk used to deliver  our milk 
and the postman would deliver to your 
mailbox on the porch in those days
we had a snow tunnel all the way 
from the front door to the street.
but the kicker was the snow on the opposite side.
we lived in a 3 story house and the snow drift went clear
up to the bottom of the second story windows  15' or more
feet high...   i remember jumping out that second story window
to slide down the snow...... >>>>>>>>
NOT <<<<<<<<<<<<
i submerged myself into a snow bank and almost sufficated  in it..
it was a royally stupid thing to do.... i managed to dig out but it
took me awhile...  
