Blizzard of 78
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- Опубліковано 3 січ 2018
- As we experience winter storm Grayson, we also remember a pretty big storm we had 40 years ago. I posted this video a few years ago, but UA-cam decided to entirely mute the audio because of a Beatles song playing over the credits at the end. I have now replaced the copyrighted music with some tunes from the UA-cam audio library.
This is a recording I made with my reel-to-reel video recorder from Boston's channel 7s coverage of the Blizzard of 78. Harvey Leonard is still doing the weather, but looks a little different these days.
I was 22 and had a Blazer with a snow plow - I gave rides to police /
doctors ... and many trips to the packy ! Snow drifts were literally
5-10 feet tall in places - snow was light and fluffy and would blow
around for the whole storm stacking up. The day after the storm was a
beautiful Blue Sky calm day - so many house parties because no one was
allowed to drive unless you had a snow plow ! The wind and ocean at
high tide pushed the water and sand and rocks down streets and left some
places with 3-5 feet of snow/slush/salt water/sand/rocks ... it took
earth moving equipment to open up areas sometimes weeks later - snow
banks were the height of telephone poles in some places! That week was
the Day The Earth Stood Still !
The look of contempt on Harvey's face @21:39 is brilliant.
"Governor tells us about your emotions when you seen the damage? "
Oh! the weatherman is here! Yikes! How Rude.
Wow, I laughed out loud at how the anchorman just cut off Dukakis without any preamble, just "Yeah, thanks, we're going to our weatherman now." If I were Dukakis, I would've been like "hey, no problem, I'm only the GOVERNOR."
I was 14 and due to the fact that my family bred and raised Alaskan Malamutes. We became the neighborhood grocery delivery service. I fully understood what was going on but to be honest I was having a ball. Especially when our dogs pulling a sled along with me would pass up a stuck snowmobile.
Thank You Mr. Herring for preserving this video. I wasn't expecting to see Senator Ted Kennedy in a shelter chatting with a nice lady, so that was interesting! I was 10 and we lived in Queens, NY when the Blizzard hit. I remember it well!
I was 7 years old living in rural Prince Edward Island. The snow was up to the roof of our house so we had to open the door and use pots to scoop the snow and dump it in the tubs and sinks. My mother told me that's why main doors to a house open towards the inside so you don't get trapped by snow, a fallen tree, etc.
Thanks for reposting this video! The blizzard of 1978 was a nasty storm and to have the video of this with the audio is even better so once again thanks.
Yes that was a bad bad bad storm nobody absolutely nobody could make a move. Grocery stores everything which shit down it gives me the willies.
I remember this so well. I was working in a hospital in Waltham but I lived in Cambridge. I had to stay since no one could get in, but the next morning I and another worker walks out. The main road was plowed one lane but nothing was moving. We walked 4 miles to the end of the trolley line and didn't see a single car. Of course the trolley wasn't working and we were pretty cold by then and we were wondering what to do when suddenly we saw snow flying up over one of the giant drifts. We clambered up and slid down the other side into the tiny diner that was there. They had brewed up tons of coffee and donuts for the police and plow drivers so we got to warm up. I got a ride to within 6 blocks from my house, but that 6 blocks took me almost an hour and a half. The snow was anywhere from 3 to 10 feet deep depending on the wind direction. I literally had to "swim" along on my belly in places. You couldn't tell there were parked cars unless you noticed an arial sticking up out of the snow, that is how deep it was! The next day the sun came out and it was fantastic! There were no cars, people pulled kids on sleds, were skis or snowshoes and there were even some people with Huskies or Malamutes pulling dog sleds. We went house to house checking on the elderly people and bringing them groceries or trying so shovel them out, but they all insisted on giving us cookies and I came home with pockets full of crumbed cookies. The wind had created the most amazing snow sculptures and I spent the rest of the day taking pictures and just standing in awe of the beauty of it all.
Harvey is an excellent weatherman; apart from his looks he hasn’t changed. His voice sounds exactly the same now. I was ten living in Tewksbury, thanks for the memories.
Harvey was the only one who predicted this storm correctly. Without today’s technology.
Harvey is still going strong in 2020 on WCVB 5
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I was 14 years old at the time. I can remember walking to the supermarket with my mother pulling a sled to carry our groceries on only when we got there there was no groceries to buy. No bread, only item in the dairy case was chocolate milk. We came home with very few supplies because there WAS nothing.
Purity Supreme!!!! Wow😂😂😂 what a blast from the past!!
A snowstorm to remember, it even had a huge effect on those of us who did not live there.
I wasn't born yet in that storm. Great video thanks for uploading
This was a couple weeks after the Blizzard of '78 in Ohio. We were still digging out.
I was 6 living in Cranston RI and I remember my mother and Uncle debating who was gonna go to liquor store and who was going to the market. The next day they were standing on the roof of the car shoveling the driveway there was so much snow.
I was 25 and still remember looking at the sky as I left my parents house in Millbury, MA right next to Worcester that sunday afternoon for a ride in my 1962 Dodge Dart thinking we were going to have a good one. I don't remember where I went that afternoon but do remember getting stuck at the bottom of a hill and walking to my buddie's house who lived fairly close. I ended up staying there for a day or two. Knowing me I probably had no snow tires on my rear wheel drive car back then. Was a really exciting storm though, no cars, people were using sleds in the streets etc.
That is Me in that boat rowing with my friend Mark down Kenberma st. In hull. We were going to a party on massasoit Ave at marks house. Our snorkel coats kept us alive for ten days.
Was 12 living in hull with my grandparents...RIP Charlie Donohue...66 Coburn street-corner of nantasket ave...we canoed out the second floor window....pool full of fish when ocean retreated...( the only pool in the town of hull at the time)...2 cadillacs wrecked...he was gonna ride it out with a few cases of Bacardi ....he had to finally be dragged outa there...lol...
I worked on the 3rd shift, and people coming in for 7am told us it was terrible out there. I asked one lady why she came in. She said it would stop and they would clear the roads by her quitting time. I had a horrendous ride home, avoiding the unplowed side roads I came to work on. The highway was plowed, but blowing snow covered it right away. I could hear the bottom of my car surfing on top of it. We didn't even know it was supposed to snow the day before.
This was one HELL of a mess, I’ll never forget it
I was 14 years old during this blizzard. I’m from Cape Cod. No school for over a week. My parents left work and it took them over 8 hours to come home by car. This tide usually takes 15-minutes. They were lucky.
As kids we didnt really know what was going on just snowing and no school ~
I remembered the 1978 snow storm like it was yester day , snow real high over the door , we had to shovel the snow inside before we could shovel it out , no food in the house , I fell in it & almost died , cars & motorcycles were stuck in the middle of the street , we were out of school for 2 weeks , it was a hard time that day & cold
Until 2015 with seven blizzards all of them were Blizzard of 1978 sized called Snowmaggedon. It was also during Deflategate.
How can I forget that storm I was arrested that day doing some bad stuff my own fault when I was in jail that night I heard some other people in the jail so I yelled out with a joke steak and eggs in the morning fellas and somebody yelled out is that you Jimmy I said yeah who's that it's your brother Peter I said what are you doing you I guess who is friends got arrested but drinking in a abandoned house they let them go but they kept me I went to court that morning all you saw was National Guard trucks they dismissed my case because of the storm there were no cars on the road and I was on crutches so I tried to hitchhike ended up getting picked up by a National Guard truck that drove me all the way to my mother's house what a crazy storm that was
Jim Costigan lmfao great story man
@@billybob8358 I could tell you some stories that would blow your mind if you like to hear some let me know if you got some let me know thanks my friend I'm glad you enjoyed it
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Bless ya! That is a funny story! You need to try and get interviewed if they do another "retrospective" of the event.
@@jimcostigan4127 Jim this might sound a little weird but I think I'd like to try making a short text adventure game out of your Blizzard 78 jail story! They're free, I don't sell them so I couldn't pay you, but let me know anyway! It's such a funny story.
I was born 11 6 1978.😊. Mother and father got snowed in. 😮😊
Where the heck did Dukakis get that Norwegian sweater? lol 16:00
Does anyone know how bad Plum Island and Newburyport/Newbury/Byfield along with Danvers (Danversport) & Malden were affeceted? Any stories would be appreciated! Thank you!
11:30-11:38 One of the earlier old-school Stop & Shop tractor trailers with the store names Bradlees and Medi-Mart alongside.
I was a 9 year old back then but I remember oh so well was living in Pawcatuck, CT. out of school for about a month
I was four years old with my family evacuated at the Damon Elementary School in Hull in the news report. Unfortunately none of my family or myself are in the video.
Remember it well
Was 11 had to use second floor window to get out. Was suppose to be a quick Alberta Clipper until it stalled, was in school when they early released everyone. Aunt nearly died on Route 128.
Brung in?
To think, come January 26, 2023, will be the 45th anniversary of that horrible storm. And all 3 storms that converged together met in Ohio and moved eastward. So many people lost their lives due to the negative wind chill factor, exposure & no heat for some.
This video is based only upon the East Coast Blizzard of February 6-7th 1978 not the Ohio Valley Blizzard of 1978. The two are separate and different, not the same storm.
The Northeast Expressway? What is that called now?
There really isn't a Northeast Expressway anymore. The Southeast Expressway runs through downtown with most of it in a tunnel and continues on into the south shore communities down along the coast. At the other end of the road it runs into 95 North which is the North-South New England corridor. Actually Maine to Florida! The NE Expressway ran up to that junction but when they made the road 8 lanes they dumped the name. Routes 95/128 now circle the entire city about 5 miles out, kind of like a lasso. Bits of the ring road got built at different times and it became Rt. 128. Old locals still call it that but the whole thing is "officially" Rt. 95. I hope that helps.
It still is the Northeast Expressway, Route 1 starting at the Tobin Bridge to the Route 60 junction in Malden is called that, there was plans in the 60s to extend 95 through saugus, revere and lynn but it was cancelled due to protests, if you can imagine the current central artery and route 1 being I-95 that's what it would've been, look into the Inner Belt highway project in Boston, pretty fascinating if you are Boston area history buff
@@HayastAnFedayi I-95 was supposed to be built to go through Hyde Park, Roxbury, Downtown, and thru Revere, Saugus to Peadody, but after the NIMBYs, they decided to label Rt. 128 as part of I-95. What really killed the project was adding a 695 belt from Roxbury to Revere via Brookline, Allston, & Cambridge, as it would’ve ram through BU & Harvard.
I can't believe how the anchor cut off the governor in that way! Horrible.
sorry no landmarks modern culture has removed them.
This is what happens in London after half an inch of snow
Texas, too. I remember driving to work after an ice storm, found nobody there, and called around to find out they'd cancelled due to weather.
it was a hurricane with snow we had a wood burning stove the only heat on the street
Who is bobby
God everybodys so stiff. With the exception of Harvey Leonard, these guys seem frozen without any blizzard. Was Boston media always this horrible?
One thing though that I'm a little confused of. If I do a Google search then the "blizzard of 78" was Jan 25th to 27th, but Garry Armstrong's feature said Monday 6th February. Can anyone help clarify? I ask because, weirdly, I might be using the event as background in a text adventure game. The long-form explanation is that MIT and DEC play a central role in the history of text adventure games, and a game called Dungeon (you might know it as Zork) was ported from mainframe to mini computer by Bob Supnik this exact week because..... He was snowed in and had nothing else to do!
@Zolar Czakl Thank you for clarifying 👍
There was 2 blizzards in Jan, Feb. 1978.one end of Jan. 2nd first week in Feb
emergency reports should have STRESSED fines and jail time for anyone driving in this terrible storm on highways. days before all major storms citizens are notified and no reason for anyone clogging up highways. they deserve all they go through!!
Oh shutup norm.
“days before all major storms citizens are notified” - umm, Not! Obviously you have no idea what you’re talking about and no reliance on actual Facts.
There was no advanced warning of a storm of this magnitude coming. Technology was not very accurate back then. A lot of them probably headed out before it started and depending on how long they were traveling got stranded on the road. Thats how fast this storm was dumping snow down.
This was the Perfect Storm, all the conditions were in place and happened rapidly. A true Noreaster. They are once in a 100 years.
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Bobby vinton get him on now
I sure remember that. Everything was closed for almost 2 weeks. U can't even freakin walk snow so high.