Talk:Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978

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)

Conditions before the storm

One of the things that made the blizzard have such a huge impact was that there had been another storm, a near-blizzard, that had dumped (iirc) between 1 and 2 feet of snow shortly before the blizzard. [1] claims that it was 21 inches and that the storm was Jan 20, 1978. So snow removal was hampered by there already being large amounts of snow on the ground, and storm surges were made worse by such crazy amounts of snow on the ground. Rmd1023 (talk) 13:18, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

I had no idea that was considered a near-blizzard in Boston, but for those of us in New York City and Long Island, it was a blizzard. Plus, there was an ice storm in betweeen the two blizzards. ----DanTD (talk) 20:55, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

As I recall, these accounts of prior storms are correct. I lived in Maynard, MA and remember using snowshoes to walk over featureless, flat snow underneath which my VW Beetle was completely buried. I walked over to the headquarters of Digital Equipment Corporation where I found the buildings closed for the first time in DEC history and several guards stuck there, snowed in. David Spector 19:33, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

There was some weather-nerd-level requirement for something to officially be a "blizzard" that wasn't met. Don't recall what offhand. Certainly it was a whole lot of snow - I remember helping a relative recover a car he'd had to abandon during the first storm. Rmd1023 (talk) 19:40, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

Some images from the one in January (http://wintercenter.homestead.com/photojan1978.html). ---------User:DanTD (talk) 17:09, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Why the name change?

A lot of people remember this blizzard as the "Blizzard of '78" so the name change is just going to make it harder to find. Rosekelleher (talk) 01:14, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Agreed. This move may need to be reverted. - Denimadept (talk) 08:40, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

The offensive and inappropriate fact that this article is pointlessly entitled "Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978" instead of the obvious, proper, and merited "Blizzard of 1978" severely dishonors Wikipedia's reputation of reliability and must be resolved at once. This storm was far superior to the preceding one in the Midwest by multiple objective measures - damage, deaths, and most importantly wind (110mph gust recorded at Scituate, MA). Please fix immediately. 73.238.21.186 (talk) 01:46, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

Someone is trying to standardize something which doesn't need standardization. - Denimadept (talk) 05:28, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

Certainly. Could you please contact an admin directly about reverting to the proper naming of this article? We don't need to really compile a literature of all the usages of "Blizzard of 78" in reference to this storm in order to persuade them to do it, since it was the initial mis-step of renaming to "Northeastern United States ..." that was completely unsourced, invalid, and lacking corroboration in any sort of accepted standard or common usage. On these grounds, and admin should be able to retitle this article "Blizzard of 78" immediately and not as an improvement or a change in nomenclature, but as a reversion and as a basic correction. 73.238.21.186 (talk) 23:18, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

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