Blizzard of 78'.....Where Were You?

[luds]

Originally Posted by CAL

I was 11, no school for almost two weeks I think. Luckily our garage was connected so we could get to the shovels. Snow drifts were higher than the front door. We had to shovel out from the inside. A guy in the neighborhood had a snowmobile and he tied on a toboggan and made trips to the Purity Supreme in Weymouth so we could all get food. Was pretty much a full time job for the guy for awhile.

My father worked for Mass Electric. A crew from some electric company in Quebec was sent down to work with him since so many power lines were down. He worked 20 hours on, then 4 off for sleep, then 20 on again.....for six weeks, seven days a week. With the union rules, he said he made almost a years pay in that time

Not that it was as bad as '78, but that storm on April 1st, in 96 or 97 was a doozy. I lost power for a week. No heat or hot water (god, the showers were brutal). Top 25 feet of a 60 or 70 foot pine missed my living room by inches. And the funny thing was that there was no snow when I went to bed and by 5 AM we were buried.

Purity Supreme I think there might actually still be one of them in Reading, MA

[BigFish]

Luds...I bet your plug cabinets are always full?

[luds]

Originally Posted by BigFish

Luds...I bet your plug cabinets are always full?

yeah.....with cases of Bombers.

[Raven]

Never saw a storm like that, and hope I never see one like that ever again!!!
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you will.... again ...part of global warming is more precipitation

chunks of greenland ice will be floating in the bay...

[Raven]

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...

[CAL]

Originally Posted by BigFish

Luds...I bet your plug cabinets are always full?

One of the biggest plug whores I've ever met

[luds]

Originally Posted by CAL

One of the biggest plug whores I've ever met

oh....he said plug cabinets. i have plugs in my kitchen. plastics go in the cabinets. wood hangs.