Talk:Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978

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This article needs a better title. Something that refers to the geographical location of the blizzard. Theresa Knott (ask the rotten) 21:45, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

== young children I can tell you that this was a storm that we will never forget. It's like everybody knows where they were when President Kennedy opportunity to thank all of you who provided confort, warmth, and generosity to us as victims of this blizzard. --68.9.164.23 03:57, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Location clarification

For those who want to identify the site where thousands of vehicles were stranded along Route 128, I added info including the facts that the freeway is now signed as Interstate 93 (MA-128 was decommissioned there in the 1990s...in 1978, although I-93 had already routed there as of a couple years prior, the road back then was still primarily Route 128 in an offcial sense. This is no longer the case), and that the infamous "Exit 64N" to Route 138 North is now signed as "Exit 2B".

--EmiOfBrie, 9/14/05 17:28 CDT

The new highway designation is actually I-95. I-93 intersects I-95 and exists as a separate highway. I have changed this section from I-93 to I-95. Denyba (talk) 14:32, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

It is important to determine what is meant by the line: "(this section of highway is now I-93/US 1. The "Exit 64N" in the famous pictures of this incident is now Exit 2B)." I-93 and US 1 intersect in Charlestown, not in the 128 corridor. Exit 2B is south of Boston and is at the confluence of I-93 and SR 138. Where is this place of which you wrote?

Denyba (talk) 14:36, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

I think he's talking about the southern intersection of these 3 routes in Brantree. 66.31.78.14 (talk) 17:58, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Worcester, MA, Conditions during and after

The local Civil Defense set up emergency phones in the basement of Lincoln Auditorium. We dispatched National Guard deuce and a halfs to bring doctors, nurses and patients to hospitals. Groceries were delivered by snowmobile. WPI's college cafeteria was staffed by a few heroic souls that fed hundreds of extra people. Snow drifts averaged fifteen feet, but ocassionally got to twenty five feet. Most of this snow was still in piles when the St. Patrick's day storm hit burying Worcester again. some cars parked on side streets were not free of snow and ice until April.

Do you have any sources for this information (internetm, book, newspaper, etc.)? Information I've been able to find so far is quite sparse. I'm actually a WPI student myself, nice to hear from someone from the neighborhood. -Runningonbrains 00:54, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] bread and milk

I think it's quite silly to say that this storm was responsible for "bread and milk runs". People had been doing this for a long time before this storm. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.233.240.242 (talk) 12:43, 14 January 2008 (UTC)