Share Your Blizzard of '78 Memories
Where were you when the storm hit? Stroll down memory lane — and post your photos!
I was just 6 years old when the Blizzard of '78 hit Rhode Island — old enough to know that it was a big storm, but too young to understand the true impact of it. At the time, I was living in a house on Hillside Avenue in Johnston, at the bottom of a hill near the Manton Avenue Bridge — which meant that all the snow blew down toward my house, burying the front door. Luckily, it was a two-story house, so we could climb out the upstairs window to get out — and get a view of the huge snowfall. Once the storm was over, we dug out from the door, leaving a snow tunnel to the driveway that — in my six-year-old memory, anyway — didn't seem to melt away until Memorial Day. And ever since — like nearly every Rhode Islander alive at the time — I …
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