BOSTON (CBS) - It's been 40 years since the historic Blizzard of 1978.The question is - could it happen again? Well, yes. And no. We have had comparable storms in terms of snowfall, and just a few ...

The Blizzard of '78 altered the way we prepare for storms. With streets buried in more than two feet of snow, Kenneth Galligan's neighbors in Brockton had run out of milk and had no way to get more.

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 ...

PHOTOS: Looking back at the Blizzard of ’78 in Massachusetts. In all, 29 people were killed, 2,000 homes were destroyed and thousands more damaged. The stories have lived on for more than two ...

Channel 3′s former chief meteorologist Bruce DePrest was at college in Lowell, Massachusetts at the time. “It was hard to get out of the storm after it happened because there was so much snow.

Few had ever seen snow like this. It fell not as flakes, but in wind-whipped, other-worldly sheets. It accumulated faster than seemed possible. And 25 years ago, when the blizzard of Feb. 6-7, … ...

A highway in Massachusetts was buried in snow on Feb. 6, 1978, following the historic "Blizzard of 78". The storm dropped 23.6 inches of snow on Boston over 32 hours and 40 minutes, between Feb. 5 ...

Forty years ago today, the Blizzard of '78 hit the East Coast, killing 73 people in total and leaving countless others stranded in their homes and their cars. Massachusetts residents who lived ...

Why a Blizzard of ’78 won’t catch us flat-footed again. ... Massachusetts was feeling the fury of the Blizzard of ’78 — a 27.1-inch blanket of snow that buried the commonwealth over two days.

The blizzard of '78 was not widely forecast, depending on where people were getting their information. Not everybody was aware that we were going to get *** big storm. The forecasts were not uniform.

Why Massachusetts is still talking about the disastrous Blizzard of '78 after 46 years. Forecasts at the time were limited by technology and were not uniform.