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The Blizzard of '05

Pow! That was some storm. Dare we suggest it will finally make people shut up about the Blizzard of '78? Here are some photos from one Roslindale block.

Our neighbors make sure nobody parks on their cars:

The cavalry returns:

It doesn't look it, but this was one treacherous hill:

Brrr:

Making tracks:

Comments

it's still wild here on the cape at 530p but at least the power's back on for the big game tonight...

patricia on January 23, 2005 05:37 PM.

Oh my Goodness.

This is so amazing to see. I am from Brisbane Queensland Australia, and we don't get snow here..

These photos' just blow me away.

Stay safe and warm now.

Judy on January 24, 2005 07:25 PM.

Check out my Blizzard of '05 photographs here
http://www.saugus.net/Photos/blizzard_05_2005_photographs.shtml

Jim H on January 25, 2005 10:43 AM.

just checked the photo's brilliant. I am due in Boston on 3rd February. Glad you arranged for the snow to fall before I arrived.

It looks great but......

norma on January 25, 2005 05:21 PM.

Hello, i`m from germany.

its unbelievable to see so much snow.
we`ve never had so much snow.
it looks great.
i wish that once there will be so much snow in germany too.

greetings from germany.

Snowdog =) on February 1, 2005 02:18 AM.

Sorry,
I was there in 1978, working in Seabrook, N.H. that night. I got stuck at work till the second day after the blizzard by the way. The photo of the 2 foreign cars with snow half way up the doors says it all. My 1970 Ford galaxie was completely covered up to the hood and once I cleared around it and opened the hood to clear the snow that had blown in behind the grille I found the engine compartment completely packed with wind driven snow. The imprint of the bottom side of the hood was in the snow. The drifts were so high around the buildings at work that the end of one of the warehouses was completely covered. That roof was 18 feet high. The 78 storm also covered a LOT more territory than this one did, all the way to Ohio.
It was still a powerful storm, but not quite enough to dethrone the mother of all blizzards.

STEVE on February 1, 2005 01:14 PM.

My boyfriend is from Boston and we now live in Australia - I can't believe it - He can !

Janet on April 12, 2005 02:14 AM.

Lived it, Loved it!!!
want to meet your neighbor's ?
have a snow storm shoveling party.

Total shoveling this 2005 season 27 hours.

james on April 15, 2005 12:58 PM.

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