I love to watch these old broadcasts. It reminds me of the America that existed when I was growing up. A safe, decent place full of normal decent people. News that was more news than propaganda and emotional manipulation. I miss that place.

I spent the Blizzard of ‘78 playing with my Six Million Dollar Man action figure.

My dad and I took his 1969 Ford F 250 and went from Middleboro Ma. To the T station in South Boston. My sister and her best friend were stuck and dad said we need to get them home. We had a wood furnace and a fireplace to heat the house and keep us warm. We had a gas stove and plenty of wood. Thanks dad. Dad was a melt shop foreman at Henry Perkins Foundry in Bridgewater Ma. He went in to make sure things kept working and our family made sure we had the snow moved and plenty of wood to stay warm at home. A great example of a family working together.

I was 9 years old when this happened. Us kids had the greatest time. I’ll never forget the snow tunnels we built. The entire family was forced to gather in the living room where the fireplace was. Mom cooked everything on the fire. It was like camping until my brother got sick and went into convulsions from a high temperature. I don’t know how dad did it but he drove that 1977 4 door LTD about 10 miles through some of the most frozen roads I’ve ever seen to the hospital.

No cell phones back then and we still made it thru! Don't think people would make it thru today. Hardly any self-reliance anymore.

I remember the blizzard of 78. I was doing my time in Japan. I wish I could go back to the 70s. A great time in America.

As a little kid I lived 10 minutes outside Providence and thanks to my Mom and Dad, we were fine. Plenty of food, my Dad had built a wood stove to heat the house with plenty of wood stacked in the cellar and a snowmobile with plenty of gas. I remember riding up and down the street on the back with him checking on neighbors while Mom was at home making sausage and peppers. No idea how lucky I was to grow up in a home where all the basics were covered. Also, if you want a little time travel trip, go look up the Billboard top 40 from 2/4/78 and let it play in the background while watching this, you can actually taste the hot chocolate and smell the sausage and peppers in the croc pot.

I was about 9 when this came through, we lived in Somerset MA, just to the east of the Providence area. Out of school all week, but I do not remember ever losing electric power. My dad was one of those stranded truckers, he got stuck on I95 in Connecticut. Took him over a week to get back, until then, just me and mom. After the snow stopped, we went at shoveling the driveway, just a few feet at a time, for days, her with a normal size shovel, me with my more kid size one. Was great fun for a kid and by weeks end we were cutting the now firmed up snow into block like pieces and stacking them to the sides of the drive where we could. My neighborhood was plowed out by big front end loaders and dump trucks that took the show down to the Taunton river. I remember mom and I being amazed as a front end loader went down our street pushing this huge "cigarette" made of snow. That following summer, you would go to the mall and wherever there was a parking lot light pole, you could still see the melting snow that had been piled up at the poles base by plows during the storm cleanup. I was lucky, had a house with a fireplace to stay warm by and my own bed to sleep in, so in a lot of ways, it was mostly a good memory. Still, I always have the utmost sympathy for anyone that goes through such a storm. Now I live in Florida where I just have hurricanes to worry about every year.

Boy, do I remember that. Originally, the forecast was potential flurries. I was dug out just in time get to the hospital to deliver my beautiful daughter. I could never forget her birthday.

I was six at the time, still remember how much fun that was. Really outlines the difference between kids and adults.

I remember that, it was great for us kids. Best snow days ever.

My dad and I put on our skis ⛷️ and made our way down President Avenue in Fall River, Massachusetts. What a thrilling experience. I was out of school for quite a while. I remember how the only vehicles allowed on the road were state vehicles. The community really pulled together to help one another out. It was a once in a lifetime experience.

We were coming home from the movies at Golden Ring Mall when the snow started. I remember it wasn't melting at all when it fell on the road, . Woke up the next morning to snow more than 3ft. deep and drifts up the entire side of our house. We got the ENTIRE week off of school and had a great time every day. Snow fort's, sledding, car hopping, football games, ALL DAY LONG. Just awesome!!

My Dad lived in B.F.E Indiana at the time.. he went to bed prior to the blizzard, he woke up and his Car was covered in snow.. he thought someone stole his wheels (as he had a Cuda or Nova at the time.) Though his mom traded a neighbor a carton of cigs for a half a side of beef as he was a huge cattle farmer. My grandad managed to get home after work to see Dad and Grandma eating porterhouses (as they only have tomatoes and potatoes from that years garden to sustain themselves prior for bartering for beef.)

I was 35yrs.old living on the Jersey shore 300 ft . from the ocean.The wind blew the snow a quarter mile west.What i remember most was the bitter cold all winter.

I knew the guy who was trying to get to Greenville, I recognized his car. That’s where we lived. We ended up with 50 inches of snow and 8-15 foot drifts. It took us a few days to shovel out the doors and a week to make a path down the driveway to the street. Thankfully the wind had carved out a spot next to a corner window and we jumped out and started shoveling towards the porch. It was surreal- no school for two weeks

I was only 3 years old, living in south central Kentucky at the time, but I still remember playing in all that snow and building a snowman in the front yard of our home.

That whole winter was nuts! It was so bitter cold, it wasn't just the snow it was also the arctic temperatures.... it was the only time I can remember the Chesapeake Bay froze solid. I was in high school at the time and schools were closed for almost a month. Our plumbing froze solid and we didn't get running water/bathrooms back for several weeks. Very difficult time and not forgotten to this day!

I lived through that 1978 blizzard but I lived in Berkshire County Massachusetts I was 11 years old and my 17 year old brother had a 440 blizzard Ski-Doo and he took me all over we went just riding the main streets everywhere it was a childhood Winter wonderland. My brother was a god to me love that guy

We lived right on the ocean just south of Boston, we got 4 feet of ocean water in the living room, we had to evacuate, I was 17 and we all trudged through ocean slush, them through deep Snow to my grandparents house a 1/2 mile away, I'll never forget the fireplace we all huddled around to dry off.

We were buried in northern R.I.. I'd never experienced anything like it. I was 25 yrs old with a year old daughter. My husband had to leave his car on the road and somehow walked home to our apartment. He looked like an ice man. That night, we stood looking out from our front window as the snow became a white sheet, howling and screaming like a train. We couldn't see anything but snow, not even the street lights. Thank goodness we'd stocked up on everything. We expected maybe 8 inches , and got 5 feet.

I was 12 years old in Massachusetts and had two weeks off from school.

Lived through the Blizzard of 78 in Central Ohio as an 11 year old. When we went to bed it was in the 40's and rainy, then in the morning our power was off, and when Mom tried to open the front door, it was jammed up with a snow drift. We were out of school for a week, and had a good time digging tunnels in the snow.

I’m amazed that people today STILL don’t stock up for the winter in areas like this where winter is expected to be bad.

In Connecticut Governor Grasso shutdown the highways, and we didn’t have the fiasco that RI and Mass had. Cars, not the snow was the problem. Oh BTW 1977-1978 was a El Niño year…just like 2023-24…So you never know history might repeat itself.

I worked in Communications, at Xerox Corporation. WE were back at it 3 days later, driving through 20 ft deep canyons where streets used to be. On one side were tall buried trees, on the leeward side of the canyons, Hundreds of buried homes for miles. The company Vehicles were Premium Rides in one or 2 year old cars, with Top Quality tires. Thanks Xerox Corp... WE Gotter Done. It is sad that America has fallen to communism in 2023, with NOW... "Weaponized Weather" Beware the days coming

People really pulled together through that mess, true hero’s. anybody that had a 4x4 or sled was asked to help out and they did. I was 12 I’ll never forget that time in central Ohio

At almost 14 years old, I was sledding off of our roof on the East side of our family home where the drift reached the gutter. Under that drift we dug out a network of tunnels in which we lit & heated with many of Mother’s candles. While hearing complete deafening silence we couldn’t help but notice.

I was 14 years old and New Jersey and the way the weather is going it wouldn't surprise me if it happened again.

We lived in Cumberland, and I worked at the IMH and went to work, Monday morning, and was stuck at work until early Saturday morning, when my husband was able pick me up.

I lived in Indy when this came through. It was unbelievable. Biggest snow I've ever seen. Nothing even close to this.

I was in Indiana. We dug a path out to the street. The plow came along and filled in the hole. The ice drift didn’t melt until spring.

I remember! Best week ever as a kid!

“It was a awesome, frightening and in a twisted way, beautiful sight…” What a quote after talking about those that died. Although in todays standards that would be called upon, it showed the unique ability of local journalism to capture the scene everyone saw. A more honest journalism age in our country.

I was 17, it was the best winter of my life. I keep hoping we will have another one like it, but it hasn’t happened yet 😢

I was 11 and lived in Indiana at this time and we were also hit with a blizzard. We made tunnels to go from one house to the street and beyond. We ate potato soup. Never touched the stuff since. Between my house and the candy store, there was a railroad bridge and it formed an Icicle underneath the pass that didn't fully melt until 3 years later. Always blew my mind.

Those were Fine Words spoken by the Reporter in the closing of this vidio.

I was almost 11 years old and living in Woonsocket. What a Storm got something like 50 inches!

I was 11 1/2 when this happened. We went to school on Monday and did not go back until next Monday. We had a D8 bulldozer plow our street. Living in Wrentham,Ma, I was told we got 44 inches.

My family was driving home from the movies that Sunday night. I remember the snow was not melting on the roads, it looked more like sand swirling around as cars drove thru it. By the time we got home (30 minutes) snowfall had doubled. Half hour later (11:00pm) we heard that schools were closed (I was in 6th grade)for Monday and they ended up staying closed for the whole week! For us kids it was awesome, amazing, unbelievable. It cost us our entire spring break that year but we didn't care, not even a little bit.

I lived on Smith Hill then. ! block from rt95. Crazy times. Loved living in Providence back then

I remember that storm very well! We had a party at the big top shelter house that first night! Had a wonderful time and have fond memories of this!!!! !!!!!!

I’ll never forget this storm and its impacts on us …I was living in Lawrence MA at the time and we got buried it was a really crazy time….couldn’t get out for a week ….course we were happy about not having school and midterm exams lol

I remember it well. Was driving for Roadway Express (domiciled in Cincinnati, Ohio) and was dispatched to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It was raining and very warm when I left the terminal with instructions to "call Columbus" when I got to Old Washington, Ohio, to the truck stop there. It was puzzling, because I was not domiciled in Columbus, but I followed instructions, stopped and called. I will NEVER FORGET the voice of the Columbus dispatcher! He sounded panic-stricken and told me to listen carefully: Use the bathroom, get food and drink "to go", get back in my truck and NOT STOP until I reached the destination! The snowstorm was just an hour behind me, but it didn't catch me. However, when I reached Harrisburg, drivers there were snowed in for FIVE DAYS! When we were released to return home, conditions weren't bad until coming out of the "hole in the wall" and entering Ohio. At that point, the whole world turned white. It looked like truck and cars had had someone cover their drivers' eyes because they just drove off the roads and into the ditches! Remember that this was days AFTER the blizzard, but it still looked like another world. When I finally got home to the Cincinnati Roadway terminal, my station wagon (which happened to be white in color!) had been parked next to a van and had been completely drifted over. It took hours to dig out my vehicle, then more hours to get home and shovel my driveway! Do I remember the Blizzard of '78? You bet I do! Months afterward, the highway signs on Interstate 75 from Lima to Toledo still had snowdrifts deep enough that the red, white and blue highway "shield" markers were barely visible! The photo is of my folks' home north of Dayton, Ohio.

I heard about this but never got a chance to really know what really happened! Thanks for the video. It was sad times.

I was 11 when this happened. Our primary house was in NC but we were had a vacation home in Miami. When my dad heard about this storm we ended vacation early. I remember seeing snow covered interstates in Jacksonville FL. Trucks and cars all over the place. When we hit Georgia mom wanted to stop and get a room. We tried several hotels but everything was full. My dad finished out the drive home. It normally took 12 to 14 hours depending on how many stops we took, usually me having to use the restroom, but that trip seemed like 24 hours although I was nervous i never once opened my mouth about having to stop. My dad being in the USAF gave me a bottle and said, "you'll figure out what to do with it." Necessity is the mother of invention 😂

Despite current reports, the city of Woonsocket received 54" of standing snow. Drifts were another story. Main thoroughfares were reduced to walking paths the width of a toboggan as people trudged to local stores for whatever provisions they could find. Gratefully, the beer supply held out. The city of Buffalo, NY offered heavy equipment when Gov. Garrahy was informed of surplus payloaders, graders and bulldozers in storage at Quonset Navy warehouses. After a week of walking and snowmobiling, snow compacted in the streets. Plows and payloaders broke up slabs of solid snow 18" thick.

Lived in va and will never forget.

Me and my brothers had to shovel our way out of our front door. We had 2 sets of stairs so it somewhat resembled an igloo and we had a kerosene heater in the living room...everyone slept in the living room together.❤

I was I was 10! Loved every minute

i spent the night on I-75 just outside toledo, OH in the car with my folks. we were coming home from Akron to Michigan

We were snowed in the apartment complex for days, couldn't get out. Local TV stayed on late playing movies. They called it "Cabin Fever Theater". People shared their food and booze in my apartment building, it was a giant party.

23:19 I hope that whomever shot and/or edited this segment never lacked for work again. Music to match the quiet devastation the storm had left behind was Class A.

Rhode Island!! What about Michigan!? We got hammered. I remember this. I was 15. No power. No heat. No water. But we made it through it

Graduated in '78 from Tolman HS Pawtucket RI, had many school days off from that storm :)

I'm from New Jersey and I was 12 years old when this happened. The city where we lived back than got two and half feet of snow. It snow from February 5 to February 7. The cars where completely cover with snow you couldn't tell where was your car.😅 We haven't have one like it after that.

I lived on Park Avenue in Worcester, above Leitrims Pub. There were cars parked on side streets that never got shoveled out until late March. Snow drifts were up to third floor windows on one side and bare ground on the other. My roommate had done a project with the city civil defense and they called him to ask if he would volunteer to work the phones dispatching National Guard trucks to respond to emergencies delivering staff and patients to hospitals, taking people to shelters. We walked a mile and a quarter to get to Lincoln Auditorium. It was a wild couple days. Lots of strange phone calls. Lots of people got unemployment checks because the state was shut down. People were cross country skiing and driving snowmobiles on city streets. I knew people who were in the food service at a local college that stayed at work for four days with no change of clothes. When I got back to work the first thing they had me do was shovel a trench through 3-6 feet of snow about 50 feet long to get to the fire hydrant.

This is so interesting. News was serious and to the point. None of this drama, back ground music, gasping, overly expressive talking heads dressed like Ken and Barbie. Just straight news. We need that again everywhere.

I survived the blizzard of 78. You bet 👍

Extreme weather and not one mention of climate change. How incredibly refreshing. Miss the days of normality.

Watching this 40+years after we moved to FL. Never been back. Don’t care to ever see snow again!!

The only day my dad didn't get out to go to work. Except vacations. My dad didn't swear alot but that day he swore alot.

I lived in Lowell Mass. When it came to us.😮😮😮

Those poor people. Especially the elderly. I feel for those stuck in cars. If i lived there i would have several blankets and lots of junk food in my car at all times and several pillows. Lots of soft drinks back then too or juice. That was before bottled water. Imagine having to get out of the car to potty in that weather !

I lived in Warwick in Oakland Beach and 😢😢😢😢😢😢😮😮😮😮. I didn't think it would ever stop!! The national guard had to bring my Mom to work at the Jewish Home for the Aged on 99 hillside Ave in Providence. It was Treacherous!!

I was 10 years old but lived in Pawcatuck, CT when the Blizzard of 78 hit New England, just remembered eating fluffer nutter sandwiches 🥪 and drinking allot of hot chocolate 🫕🍫 , building snow forts and snow ❄️❄️ ball fights good times - no school lol

I do not want people to die or be stuck in cars for days. But I want snowstorms like this! I am a sicko and believe that snow shoveling is a great workout and would love to put in my snowshoes and walk around my neighborhood in Connecticut.😊 PS I am no spring chicken at 66.

I played with the Sears Telegames during snow closure days. You may recognize it as also called Atari. The Sears unit had three sets of controls instead of two per side and it had a teak wood fascia, along with brushed aluminum paneling between the controls. It was a higher-end unit. "Sold only at Sears"

It’s December 2023 - no snow in Boston

Blizzard of 1977 was nasty 🎉

Rode this out in a hotel in Armonk, NY. Played a LOT of 8 ball.

I remember that day, i was 13 the best day of my life ;p the fun i had.

I remember that storm. I live in western mass not far from boston. The state was essencially closed.

Sadly we can still have some of those same negative things that happened then continue happening now without any snow on the ground. And a further sadness comes to my heart seeing another blizzard like that not returning yet. If one happened like that every year we would adapt very well to it. I was 11 years old in a state west of Rhode Island and I experienced some of that myself. "Oh my long-suffering soul wishes for the days to become cold... "

I remember in elementary school, we actually had to attend school on Saturdays for half a day here in Southeast Kentucky. As a child, it totally sucked because by the time we got home, the cartoons were already over.

Barely got home on that Monday in Attleboro area thanks to tire chains. Something like this will never happen again because of incredibly improved weather forecasting.

East Providence - I was 9. We had to crawl out the upstairs fire escape to dig out the front door.

I was only 5 but I remember this blizzard. Snow drifts went to the roof of the house.

Lookie here! A big storm! That was probably global warmin' back then.

I was born during this mess in NYC! ☃️

I finished paying off my plow truck because of the blizzard ! White gold !

The blizzard of 1978 OR the heat wave of 2013?? Your choice! Can always find another blanket or hot drink but NO escaping the heat!!

I remember the blizzard in Indiana. I was 15

and this is why folks should prep.

We had more snow here in Cape Breton the other week. 150cm in three days. allot of us were trapped in our homes for 4 days to over a week depending on who you were.

The mid Atlantic had a terrible Blizzard in Feb 1979.

Weather maps with hand-drawn numbers and symbols seems so quaint now. But it makes me miss those simpler times. 45 years ago but the way things are in this Brave New World, it might as well be centuries.

Weird that Tom Brokaw was on the air televising this storm celebrating his 38th birthday.

Now the news would report it as “Super Ultra Polar Arctic Vortex caused by Climate Change totally Bruh!”

Oh wow a very young Tom Brokaw.

We got sucked pretty bad here in Cincinnati in78 and in 77.

I was 2 yo ... I have pictures of me and my parents and sister with national gaurd soldiers ....

i was 3 yr old back then and i dont even see snow in my life yet

This was in reality 3 storms that came in back to back not just one storm. Drama sells and yes I lived it in EMS that week.

Storms and cold weather in the northeast in the winter?! Who would have ever expected such things? EVERYONE, that's who! Next thing you know it'll be warm in july...OMG OMG OMG

I remember when that happened… most people didn’t have 4wd… and most people were stuck! Back then 4wd was considered a luxury, it just wasn’t common.

Yea.i was 19 operating a tow truck with a homes 440 on a ford 1 ton frame...with my boss driving a plow .it was a defining time for me real life and death .eye opener 😮

That oil tanker ended up being okay by the boat that went out to help at the height of the storm , the Can Do, capsized and lost all five on board. 😢

I wonder how fast the beer ran out

Yes my middle sister was born than