Areas in Massachusetts and Rhode Island saw more than 30-40 inches of accumulation. >> See viewer photos of the Blizzard of '78 Eight-foot drifts created by the strong winds were one of the storm ...

but no storm is more clearly remembered and talked about than the Blizzard of '78. The blizzard hit the Boston area on the afternoon on February 6, 1978, and the snow piled up so quickly that ...

Like the rest of Massachusetts, Mindy Kaling still likes to talk about the Blizzard of ‘78.