For societal impacts ‘78 was like nothing else. I was 11 y.o. at the time. Had an afternoon paper route after school. Still remember delivering papers in a raging blizzard and loving it! Had an uncle that lived with my family that got stuck carpooling from Cranston in Providence that was rescued by National Guard and spent a week at Ri Hospital.
Still amazes me how well Gloria was forecast about 1 week out in ‘85. All forecasts had it hitting somewhere on the E coast 1 week+. And here we are in 2023 with such uncertainty about Lee.
Of course we had a huge snowstorm in early December that was all snow even here. I remember Burbank saying it would stay all snow even to the coast because the wind stayed northerly.
The 81-82 winter was much better for central and NNE. I remember being in central NH in mid Jan. and there was a ton of snow. We had a lot of mixing issues down here, but seemed to get much better just north of 128.