blizzard of 2018

[Rmarsh]

We got about 16" in Freetown.....got the 250' driveway cleared last night.
Not even close to blizzard of '78....which was a two day event that dumped 3' of snow here.....power was out for a week.....national guard was deployed to help clear the roads with heavy equipment......took days to clear stranded cars off the highways. THAT was a blizzard...

[Raider Ronnie]

Originally Posted by Rmarsh

We got about 16" in Freetown.....got the 250' driveway cleared last night.
Not even close to blizzard of '78....which was a two day event that dumped 3' of snow here.....power was out for a week.....national guard was deployed to help clear the roads with heavy equipment......took days to clear stranded cars off the highways. THAT was a blizzard...

Ya but 1978 did have a cool name like “Bomb Cyclone”
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I think the storm we had a few days before 78 was bigger than this Bomb Cyclone
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[Rockfish9]

Originally Posted by Raider Ronnie

Ya but 1978 did have a cool name like “Bomb Cyclone”
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I think the storm we had a few days before 78 was bigger than this Bomb Cyclone
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people coming up with these names weren't even born in 1978...

...we got 16" here in Reading from this storm... there were some sizable drifts but it moves like feathers...no big deal.

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by Rockfish9

people coming up with these names weren't even born in 1978...

^^^^^^
So true.

Originally Posted by Rockfish9

...we got 16" here in Reading from this storm... there were some sizable drifts but it moves like feathers...no big deal.

A foot or so here.

It was a storm, a nasty one, and it impacted us ('cept for some coastal places) like many other storms.


It was tough on other places not used to it and it would have been very tough if same storm tracked 100 miles more west than it dud.

[Slipknot]

Originally Posted by Rockfish9

it moves like feathers...no big deal.

Feathers for you

we got PASTE
stuck to everything and frozen
not easy to deal with

I made three passes yesterday keeping up

[ProfessorM]

Originally Posted by Slipknot

Feathers for you

we got PASTE
stuck to everything and frozen
not easy to deal with

I made three passes yesterday keeping up

Yup heart attack cement here.
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[Rockfish9]

Originally Posted by Slipknot

Feathers for you

we got PASTE
stuck to everything and frozen
not easy to deal with

I made three passes yesterday keeping up

That's the worst stuff in the world to deal with... I had some drifts here at the shop that were 4-5' high.. still a lot easier to move than the stuff you got....I don't envy you cleaning up that mess... 6" of that slop is worse than 3' of powder...

[Rmarsh]

Picture of RT 128 Feb 7 or 8 1978

If you weren't around in '78...it is the storm by which all others are measured. This weeks snow storm will quickly be forgotten.

I barely made it home from work that day. Power went out early and didn't come back on for a week. We had just got married in the fall and were living in our new house that I had built. Our wood stove kept us warm and comfy...and as I mentioned we were newlyweds.

[Got Stripers]

I remember not seeing a plow on our side street for almost a week and to kill time I'd hike to the harbor to visit with friends and the devastation in downtown Scituate was unreal. Lobster boats on main street, dump trucks buried in rock and sand right up to the windows and debris everywhere.

[Rockfish9]

I had 3 trucks and a front end loader out on the town of Andover during the blizzard of 78... I loaned my snow mobile to Lawrence general hospital to ferry doctors and nurses from home to work... I spent my time in a walter snow fighter plowing I 495 between Haverhill and Lawrence... I made enough money from that storm to pay cash for a brand new F250 with a 8' fisher plow buy a 69 Chevelle with money to spare... what I made from this storm wouldn't pay the sales tax on a new truck...I know some folks got hammered pretty bad from this storm...but around these parts it was just a inconvience... enough of one for me to have to work today instead of ice fish...