BLIZZARD OF MEMORIES

Pat Santilli of Brockton remembers firefighters lifting her friend over a towering snowbank so she could get to the hospital to deliver her baby boy. After all but emergency vehicles were banned from snow-clogged streets and highways, Donna Ryan of East Bridgewater saw a team of sled dogs “going like Santa Claus” down the street behind a plow. ¶ “I had the kids and the husband run to the window because I knew we were never going to see that again,” Ryan wrote to The Enterprise. ¶ Anyone old enough to remember the Blizzard of ’78 has vivid memories of how that historic storm buried cities and towns in snow over a two-day period, raked the coastline with hurricane-strength winds, and paralyzed the state for many days.
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