I’ve seen many echoes of 1978 this time around. A Facebook video showed Coventry firefighters a few days ago pulling a patient in a canoe down their half-mile driveway, which couldn't be plowed out.
Both mega-nor'easters belong in the same discussion as two of the most impactful winter storms New England has ever seen.
While the historic storm retains its claim to supremacy in most measurements, one impressive record did fall.
The Blizzard of '78 is legendary in eastern Massachusetts. Could this winter storm have beaten it? It depends how you measure ...
Stay off the roads. That was Gov. Dan McKee’s message to all Rhode Islanders as a nor’easter with “peak blizzard conditions” ...
The massive storm left 20 people dead in Michigan, and saw about 100,000 cars abandoned on snow-covered highways across the state.
Noting the similarity between the blizzards of '78 and '26, Brockton resident Teresa Gonzalez reached out to see if we could ...
This week's storm dropped 3 feet of snow in Rhode Island, outpacing that New England state's blizzard of 1978, but how does ...
The blizzard of 1978 buried New England under several feet of snow and remains seared into the minds of many to this day.
The city of Providence has beat the record amount of snowfall, surpassing The Great Blizzard of 1978. As of Monday afternoon, the blizzard had dumped a record number of 32.8 inches of snow, making it ...
A historic blizzard shattered the all-time snowfall record in Providence, R.I., on Monday, bringing hurricane-force wind ...