SPRINGFIELD, Mass (WWLP) – The Blizzard of 1978 is still a vivid memory for many Massachusetts residents. “We were pretty much housebound; at the time we had a new baby,” Michael Lastoria ...

BOSTON – We've all heard the stories about the Blizzard of 1978 and perhaps you have one of your own. Even 46 years later, it still stands as the "benchmark" storm in New England, the storm ...

On Feb. 5-7, 1978, Old Man Winter gave Massachusetts a beating it would not forget. The Blizzard of 1978, sometimes known more formally as the Northeastern United States Blizzard of 1978 ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – The blizzard of 1978 hit on this day, February 6, in Massachusetts, and it’s a day that’s hard to forget for long-time residents. Springfield was buried under heavy ...

Valentine’s Day, 1978. If love was in the air, it was hard to tell with all the snow on the ground. After the infamous Blizzard of ’78 slammed Massachusetts with over 27 inches of snow earlier ...

And 25 years ago, when the blizzard of Feb. 6-7, 1978, ended, people emerged from ... declarative sentence ?Southeastern Massachusetts was closed today.? Driving Nightmare The snow piled up ...

To be in the top five (along with storms like the Blizzard of 1978, the April Fool's Day ... extremely likely for a good portion of eastern Massachusetts late Monday night into the day on Tuesday.

New England’s Blizzard of 1978 forever changed how people in the ... estimated losses of $500 million due to the storm in Massachusetts alone. Feb. 6 and 7, 1978, an overwhelming amount of ...

That’s a far cry from early February 1978 ... The average age in Massachusetts is 40 and so it’s likely that many of you reading this don’t even remember the Blizzard of ‘78 when it ...

Massachusetts is no stranger to infamous snow storms. One of the harshest snow storms, the Blizzard of 1978, left Boston covered in 27.1 inches of snow over the course of two days, according to WCVB.

When it comes to infamous snow lore in Massachusetts, most locals can name two major events: the blizzard of 1978 and the "snowmageddon" of 2015. So where does this season rank in comparison?