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78Blizzard

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  1. Some of those replies to his tweet had it wrong - Those cars weren't stranded during the rush hour, at least not in the Rt 128 area. Many people, myself included, left work in the early afternoon that Monday but the snow came in like a wall from the outset. The plows couldn't do their job because cars and trucks were all getting stuck early, compounded by a jackknifed tractor trailer. I went home through back roads and it took 3 hours but I made it. There was close to a foot already on the ground by then.
  2. I had the good fortune to meet him and watch the noon newscast in the studio. I was only a kid of 10 or 12 back then and my mother had to take me in to WBZ. I had written him a letter which led to the in person meeting. He told me to study hard and go to the right colleges, the few at the time that had a meteorology curriculum. I biked on several occasions from my home in Roslindale to his weather shack in N. Weymouth. He was never there though. How's that for a weenie...
  3. I remember Don Kent saying the morning of the '78 Blizzard that all was contingent on the upper level trough merging with the southern system. This was just hours before the wall of snow came in. Things were a lot different back then with the lack of technology.
  4. I can't see between 18Z and 0Z, but the total qpf for that 6 hrs is 1.25", and just 6" of snow, so somewhere in that time period there is some taint for our hoods.
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