Three deaths in Massachusetts and Rhode Island can be attributed to the storm, from heart attacks while snow shoveling. Nearly 40,000 Massachusetts customers lost power. “I had, in fact, played outdoor baseball just the day before it all started.” “I remember a lot of people genuinely believing it was maybe some kind of joke, because the temperature in the days leading up was very warm, in the 50s and 60s,” he said. His family lost power for 15 hours, and school was canceled for three days. Central Massachusetts got even more snow than Boston, with Milford receiving 3 feet altogether.īrian Healey was 14 years old and living in Lunenberg at the time.
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Western Massachusetts news station WWLP was also hit hard by the storm, losing power for almost a full day. Bill Weld called a state of emergency, and the USS Constitution suffered damage. The wet, heavy snow came down at 3 inches an hour at some points. A colleague attached a chain to his bumper for a snow truck to pull it out from the drifts.ĭubbed the April Fool’s Day storm, it snowed 25.4 inches in Boston. When he got to the office, his car was completely snowed in. “We reported out of her house between efforts to shovel snow for four days,” he said. Stuck more than 20 miles from his Watertown home, he stayed with a colleague. Jerry Berger was a rookie reporter for the Marlborough Enterprise when he was called in to cover a night city council meeting, which then got canceled. Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island were hit even worse than Boston, with around 54 inches of snow, according to the New England Historical Society.
Twenty-nine Massachusetts residents died in the storm, according to Mass Moments, a daily almanac of Massachusetts history. The snow banks were well over my head.- Dave Baron January 28, 2022 In '78 my brothers and I did a lot of jumping off of things - off the second-floor porch of our apartment, off of the roof of the neighbor's garage. T was shut down for days in '78 and I believe also '03. Twitter user who responded to a GBH Twitter request for stories, remembered the National Guard arriving to help a pregnant neighbor get to the hospital. Flood tides forced 10,000 people into emergency shelter, and 11,000 homes were destroyed or damaged. Over 3,500 cars and trucks were stranded on Route 128 outside of Boston for days, with 14 people dying of carbon monoxide poisoning as they waited for rescue, their vehicles' tailpipes buried in snow. Michael Dukakis declared a state of emergency and shocked the commonwealth wearing a red sweater instead of the usual blazer, shirt and tie while giving blizzard updates.
Winds gusted at up to 83 miles per hour in Boston, and 92 on Cape Cod. It snowed 27.1 inches over two days, but there was already 21 inches of snow on the ground before this storm arrived, making the situation exponentially worse. What to know about Boston snowstorms, from space savers to French toast alerts A brief but delicious history of the French Toast Alert System
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