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Blizzard of '78

Akron, Ohio. Note the cars entirely buried in the snow. That was a crazy blizzard. View full size.

Akron, Ohio. Note the cars entirely buried in the snow. That was a crazy blizzard. View full size.

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I remember that blizzard; I was 16 and living in Worcester, Mass. We had the whole month of February off from school. A nursing home in my neighborhood needed help and they came and picked me up on a snowmobile. The roof of the nursing home started to collapse after a few hours and the the National Guard came and evacuated all the patients and workers using the Red Cross trucks like on the TV show, M.A.S.H. They moved everyone to an empty nursing home about a mile away. It was quite the storm.

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