north east today

well it goes back the the great blizzard of 1978..

the blizzard hit early and people went to work that day...during the day, it intensified beyond belief. as people tried leaving to get home, thousands were caught in massive traffic jams, and had to abandon thier vehicles a make foot....some had no choice but to seek shelter in stores, motels, hotels, train stations, office buildings...many office workers never got to leave the building, and they were trapped inside, no food, no showers, no bedding, sometimes no heat as power outages were happening.....

the only food was what was ever left in vending machines. mothers in the offices for business, had thier kids with them..no clean diapers, no baby formulas or food......

stores were gouging people with ultra high food prices, milk for instance sold for over $5 a gallon, bread for $5 a loaf (1978 dollars) probably $30 a gallon for milk now.. the governors of Mass, RI, CT, and other N.E. states ORDERED prices be put back to the way there were BEFORE the blizzard......it was too late for some.....others were at home, no food to speak of.......the blizzard hit on a tuesday i believe.....many people do thier food shopping on wednesday, thursday, fridays, you know, pay day...????

so now every time the word SNOW comes up on the tv, radio, newspapers...??

people run like the wind to clean out the stores......


i know........i'm a blizzard or '78 surviver........but i was home, i called in sick......and we had food....

oh by the way.....all those people trapped in office buildings, hotels motels, train stations, etc,etc.....???

the dig out took nearly a FULL WEEK..............!!!

the army came in with huge pay-loaders, bulldozers, dump trucks.....

no food, no showers, no diapers..........

one of my neighbors died.....

they couldn't remove the body from the house for several days........

when they did....they had to cut through my yard, to his house, climb over 2 fences, because his street was never worked on......

and at least 4 abandoned house were "torched" in my ...the firemen had to walk to the fires, carrying the ladders and hoses on thier backs.....no shiot......all because the snow was more than 3 feet tall......and each house burnt to the ground......

everyone was eligible to collect a week of unemployment benefits too......

yep, i survived the great blizzard of '78, and all i got was this lousy t-shirt.........(and a free paycheck from the state)

 

i wouldn't watch it.....i know how it ends.....

 

the story I loved was supposedly when the National Guard was called in to help clear the raods of Providence. A front end loader suposedly dropped a small car over the side of the Sekonk (sp?) Bridge and it was seen floating down river in a berg of snow.

Yep that blizzard was also the year that plow drivers went on strike.

Oh and 14" here in Maine on the coast