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

[doc]

i was nine...and i remember building snow forts in what seemed like mountains of snowbanks...also remember the north shore getting hammered by a massive surf....

[HighTide]

i was 14 at the time and remember being let out of school early that day and walking home from 3rd street in a white out. Also I remember the Peter Stuyvesant sinking next to Anthony's Pier 4 and the fishing pier at Castle Island completely twisted apart.

[saltfly]

I worked for MA BELL in hull,cohasset,and scituate.A friend called me to help get out of his basement appt.in hull.the water was pouring down the stairs as we grabbed what we could and drove out with water coming in the doors of my 76f-250.We got to higher ground and stopped to watch lobsters and tommy cod swimming where we had just left.We couldn't resist,we went into the water and grabbed appx.35lobsters in less than 10 mins and got out of town to my appt.in weymouth landing.We invited evryone from the bar accross the street and stuffed ourselves.I used my new x-country skis to get to peoples houses to fix their phones.Alot of houses in scituate & cohasset the phone cable was at eye height on the skis.Then we started on body recovery duty[3 people were missing in scituate] we tied lines to our climbing belts and dug into houses filled with rubble looking for the missing.The devistation was unbelievable.But truthfully it was alot of fun working together with all kinds of people for the "cause".I could go on and on with stories.I was 27 yrs old.and the partys oh man!!!! The police chief in Braintree closed all the package stores and bars I think it was on the thind day after the storm.

[goosefish]

I was living over in Hong Kong then, so I missed it. Saw Gloria, Bob, and the Perfect Storm, all three of those in Newport.

[HESH2]

week after was in boston with son for hockey game.people had put chairs in street where they had sholved out there cars to protect parking space.drove down to scituate where there was no snow near water.storm blew in so fierce houses and cottages moved off foundations and were across the street from where they had been.trees had line of snow on side facing water where wind had blown it.about 2 blocks from water there was alot of snow.i think the storm hit at high tide.

[The Iceman 6]

I was 9 years old and in CT. Can remember the monstorous snow banks. We actually went sledding on them and played street hockey in the street for days. I remember the payloader too Hesh2....

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[piemma]

I was in downtown Providence at Spiedel. Working for IBM. Left at 4:00 PM and made it to Burrillville at 11:00 PM. I had a Ford F250 4X4 and drove up the median strip on RT 95 to 295. 7:00 hours drive. Killer.