I lived in Boston during the blizzard, but I seem to remember someone telling me that there was a woman who was trapped & buried in her car in Milford - I think she got out??? If people did not see this storm, there's really no way they can fully understand how much snow there was. The one good thing is it brought out the goodness in people. My father's uncle had made a delivery to the east side of Providence, and got stuck there. A young couple, perfect strangers, took him in. Not only did they take him in, they walked to a pharmacy in order to get the medication my uncle needed. He stayed at their house for 3 days I think, before being picked up by his son in law, who had to get there by snow mobile. All this in tiny little Providence. I bought a book "The Blizzard of 78" by Michael Tougias pub. On Cape Publications Lots of photos from all over Massachusetts. I found it on line just a couple of years ago. My husband's aunt lived in Chicago. All she knew was what she saw on the Today Show - all those houses on the Cape that were being swept into the ocean. She called at 7 AM to make sure we were still living - poor woman was almost hysterical, and we didn't even know it had gotten that bad. Lisa ----- Original Message ----- From: Maureen Cooley To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 8:32 PM Subject: [MAWORCES] Cushing Hospital...... Dear Fellow Listers, I have found a certificate I have in my possesion....It says....Certificate of Surival... This certificate certifies that Maureen....Blah...Blah...Blah...Has overcome....surrmounted....and otherwise surrived what shall be known as THE GREAT BLIZZARD OF 1978.... 10:28 am February5,1987-6:20AM Feb8,1978....Presidendent Carter declares Federal Disatster area National Guard and U.S. ARMY called in Feb...7,1978... Records SET: WORST WINTER in 105 years..... RECORD SNOWFALL in a 24 hours period= 27.1 inches. RECORD SCHOOL CLOSINGS Fellow Listers....The National Guard used SNOWMOBILES to get me into Cushing Hospital DURING the GREAT BLIZZARD of 1978...I had to stay there for 3-4 days straight because other workers could NOT get in.... I had a family at this time and it was dis- regarded according to HOSPITAL WORKERS....DOCTORS AND NURSES....They picked me up on a snow mobile and I was NOT allowed to leave till all the roads were PLOWED and EVERYONE could get bACK TO WORK.... I HAD SMALL CHILDREN AT THE TIME.... BUT I did it.... Maureen _________________________________________________________________ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ ==== MAWORCES Mailing List ==== Worcester GenWeb has many Resources Check it out!! http://www.rootsweb.com/~maworces

This is ABOUT the BLIZZARD of 1978. When it first started snowing it was predicted as a regular snow storm.The ONLY problem was it just would NOT stop snowing. Then it picked up quite a bit of speed....There were times when it was a complete "WHITE OUT CONDITIONS"(This would be snowing so hard you could not SEE what was in front of you)The Milford Daily News had a picture on the FRONT page that sometimes in a July HEAT WAVE they would publish again. The picture shows an area of Milford and ROUTE 495,DURING what is called "THE GREAT BLIZZARD" the snow was coming down so fast that you did not have time to judge if you should be traveling in it. I had been on ROUTE 495 just PRIOR to the STANDSTILL.WHAT happened was if the car in front of you stalled OR could GO no further, you had to drive around them to continue. BUT very soon the snow was up to the TOP of your TIRES.AND there was a GREAT STANDSTILL. I made it home from Cushing Hospital that night...I had just worked a double shift. BUT the next morning....I had to climb out a kitchen window with a shovel because the snow COVERED the WHOLE doorway. You could not get out the door. When I looked in the driveway, you could not even see a car. The snow was that deep...They kept announcing on the radio and TV that CARS were NOT allowed on the roads. You can only walk to where you are going...You also had to clear the snow OFF your car BEFORE they would come and PLOW the streets. Because they did not want to damage any cars. The GOV at the time decalred it a FULL EMERGENCY situation....Actually I do not even know how I made it home because everyone I knew that was on the road the same time as I was did NOT make it home.The next day was when they brought me to CUSHING on the snowmobiles. People WERE pretty friendly during this time BECAUSE everyone had to WALK and you actually were talking to people. When you drive in the car you might wave BUT now everyone was talking to each other.The ONLy vehicles that were allowed on the roads were the plows and any EMERGENCY VEHICLES.... What happened in the GROCERY store was UNbelievable.....There was ALL empty shelves. And the radio would annnounce where to go for food or Milk and you would get there and it was already gone. It was a panic situation for OVER 2 weeks....Peolpe were BUYING ten or twelve of EVERYTHING so the shelves were always EMPTY. Maureen >From: "Lisa Lepore" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [MAWORCES] Cushing Hospital...... >Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:36:24 -0500 > >I lived in Boston during the blizzard, but I seem >to remember someone telling me that there was >a woman who was trapped & buried in her car >in Milford - I think she got out??? > >If people did not see this storm, there's really >no way they can fully understand how much snow >there was. > >The one good thing is it brought out the goodness >in people. My father's uncle had made a delivery to >the east side of Providence, and got stuck there. >A young couple, perfect strangers, took him in. >Not only did they take him in, they walked to a pharmacy >in order to get the medication my uncle needed. > >He stayed at their house for 3 days I think, before >being picked up by his son in law, who had to get >there by snow mobile. All this in tiny little Providence. > >I bought a book "The Blizzard of 78" by Michael Tougias >pub. On Cape Publications Lots of photos from all over >Massachusetts. I found it on line just a couple of years >ago. > >My husband's aunt lived in Chicago. All she knew was >what she saw on the Today Show - all those houses on >the Cape that were being swept into the ocean. She called >at 7 AM to make sure we were still living - poor woman was >almost hysterical, and we didn't even know it had gotten >that bad. > >Lisa > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Maureen Cooley > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 8:32 PM > Subject: [MAWORCES] Cushing Hospital...... > > > Dear Fellow Listers, > I have found a certificate I have in my possesion....It > says....Certificate of Surival... > This certificate certifies that Maureen....Blah...Blah...Blah...Has > overcome....surrmounted....and otherwise surrived what shall be known as >THE > GREAT BLIZZARD OF 1978.... > 10:28 am February5,1987-6:20AM Feb8,1978....Presidendent Carter declares > Federal Disatster area > National Guard and U.S. ARMY called in Feb...7,1978... > Records SET: > WORST WINTER in 105 years..... > RECORD SNOWFALL in a 24 hours period= 27.1 inches. > RECORD SCHOOL CLOSINGS > Fellow Listers....The National Guard used SNOWMOBILES to get me into >Cushing > Hospital DURING the GREAT BLIZZARD of 1978...I had to stay there for 3-4 > days straight because other workers could NOT get in.... I had a family >at > this time and it was dis- regarded according to HOSPITAL >WORKERS....DOCTORS > AND NURSES....They picked me up on a snow mobile and I was NOT allowed >to > leave till all the roads were PLOWED and EVERYONE could get bACK TO >WORK.... > I HAD SMALL CHILDREN AT THE TIME.... > BUT I did it.... > Maureen > > _________________________________________________________________ > Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! > http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ > > > ==== MAWORCES Mailing List ==== > Worcester GenWeb has many Resources > Check it out!! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~maworces > > > >==== MAWORCES Mailing List ==== >Need to UNsub for vacation or summer?? >Forget How to UN sub??? >http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/MA/worcester.html > _________________________________________________________________ Is your PC infected? 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