Eyewitness News at 11pm - "More Boston Blizzard of '78" - WBZ-TV (Complete Broadcast, 2/8/1978)📺 ❄️

[@alspencer3826]

I was very young, but absolutely remember the blizzard of '78. In fact just the other day, i was talking about it the other day with my mom. I remember seeing the national guard everywhere, duece and a half trucks, and hueys flying overhead. About six months ago I was visiting a friend when he showed me original newspapers from the day after the blizzard, wow to go back and read a complete newspaper (Herald American) was unreal, a bit like going back in time. Lastly, I don't miss the snow, but I miss all the people that have passed away since then, and most of all I miss my dog that I had back then. He was the smartest dog that I ever had, he was a mutt, but man what a dog. Add to that, it was my first dog, getting a little teary eyed just thinking about him. His name was King, and he may be gone, but not forgotten!! I'm sure people that have lost pets can relate.

[@mr2del]

I was 4 yrs young living North of Boston.

[@jeremiahabbott5277]

Shiloh she was the Best.

[@Bethiegraceful]

I was 6 years old and I still remember it!

[@TerrenceAlanRamsey-x7y]

I was 10 years old and still remember that "Blizzard of '78", 47 yrs today: it seems like 47 months or days though! From Jan. 3 till around early February, those frigid subzero temps had even shut down the local Post Office in Benton Harbor; and school was supposed to resume on 1/9/78: but Mother Nature (and The Lord God!) blocked all plans! Come Feb., it felt like a little 'heatwave' when the temperature rose above 33° (a big difference from about 4 weeks earlier!); and eventually, the Harbor is slowly getting back to normal, and the school system reopens! However, we all had to make up for the snow days in Jan.-Feb.: the last day was on Tuesday, June 27: then, our family members would travel to Bartow, FL in July: they went to a Spiritual convention, and I stayed at Grandma's house; the highlight of the Summer was "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty (and 6 yr old black girl Latasha Dixon was in the picture, driving a 2tone dark/light blue Chevrolet or GMC Suburban; with thick braided hair, deep dimpled smile and a few missing teeth, waving and blasting the radio!)!!

[@JohnShields-xx1yk]

I was 17 and lived right on the coast in low lying area, 4' of ocean slush in the living room, we had to trudge through 3' of slush then 1/2 mile up the hill to grandparents, they had a real fireplace thank God for them. Next day I literally walked on top of our cars, frozen in ice.

[@thesmartestone8329]

Love the theme music!

[@tkaye2]

Something about the endlessly looping synthesizer bridge of that theme is like music designed to stimulate the most reptilian portion of your brain.

[@billmacneil6781]

Wow.....I was living in Boston then. Still remember it as a surreal time!

[@Cptblogh]

Why surreal?

[@billmacneil6781]

@@Cptblogh Just for seeing it happen and the aftermath. Like nothing before or since. Waiting to get into Star Market in a line that stretched across the entire parking lot. There was no power and they let in a certain number of people at a time to avoid widespread looting. Streets made passable by airport plows but the walls on either side of the road were ten feet tall. Snow that came to the bottom of stop signs that were on poles at least 12 feet high. To this day I make sure I am well stocked with dry goods by the end of the Fall....."just in case".

[@Mariecherement]

I was 15 and living in Chelmsford, Massachusetts during this 1978blizzard. My family and all of my friends remember no school and spending all day for days shoveling ourselves and our neighborhood out!

[@MyThirdPlaceLtd]

Great to see that tonight show intro at the end!!! If you have any more with the full intro i have notifications on!!

[@wmbrown6]

From what I understand, that snippet of the open was a guide as to which edition of "EWN" on "TV 4" this was.

[@Laurn-w8i]

Thank God for the Future 🎆🌌🎆🌌🎆🎆🌌🎆🎆🌌🎆🎆

[@SteveIngalls-zm5ig]

I grew up in the 70's and remember watching the various Boston news channels. I don't remember Maurice Lewis, it looks like he was sitting in for someone in this particular newscast but he seemed to be an excellent newscaster, wish he had been a regular in Boston news

[@rjdoucette]

Amazing vid!!!

[@vibesmom]

I was 6 but clearly remember going to church on the sled with my brother and sister, and having my grandfather pull me on the sled to the store.

[@robquin1525]

My mom and aunts and uncles survived the blizzard.

[@infinitylyfe3813]

@23:00 Soup Starter was very good 🥣 😊

[@marioncobaretti2280]

I used it for beef stew by adding flour. Those were the days😊

[@KOBIELWOODS]

Gooooo Kansas City Kings

[@TELEVISIONARCHIVES]

Lived in Maine at that time. We didn't have Power for over a month. Thankfully my Father had the house heated using a wood stove.

[@jeremiahabbott5277]

If something like this would happen today as technologically advanced as we are today It would still take a month to get the power back on. And nowadays people would go nuts and probably revolt they wouldn’t have the thought and the ability for Wood burning Stoves for heat. Imagine how much more dependent our lives depend upon power? And I don’t even believe that half of the homes in the United States have backup generators or Solar Power for Backup Power.

[@MrDuds1984]

Len Berman in Boston before going to NYC

[@bryanburnap4537]

Never knew that ! And boy Don Crique was everywhere in 1980

[@HereForTheComments]

A storm like this would be fun, if you weren't what we call an "essential worker."

[@HereForTheComments]

@@trueKENTUCKY Most of the working class are, sadly. But one of these days robots will do all of these jobs.

[@observer7418]

With the advent of cable tv (remember how you wouldn't have commercials because you'd be paying for tv?) it seems news became "infotainment" and opinion.

[@bmasters1981]

Which is why stuff like this stands far and above any of the political junk that calls itself "news" today.

[@marioncobaretti2280]

The storm ended on the morning of the 8th. I watched the storm clouds clearing nantasket beach at 8:45 am

[@marioncobaretti2280]

I was 18 yrs old living at the memorial school in hull with the military

[@StudioZ7]

Satellite shots during the weather report still on black and white scratchy film, looking like it was out of the 1950s. This on a major television station.

[@thomash.schwed3662]

As I understand it, the satellite images are actually supplied by the Weather Bureau, not by the television stations. The quality didn't improve until the the Weather Bureau began upgrading its equipment. Of course, the radar was already in course of improvement with the introduction of the Doppler system in the wake of the April '74 tornadoes. The upgrade overall was hastened as a result of the blizzards across the country in '77 and '78. Even so, it's amazing to contemplate what meteorologists were able to do at the time with the limited equipment they had.

[@tkaye2]

The local stations got these Weather Bureau satellite "animations" on their daily news feed from the networks.

[@vostock83]

At 14:30 there is a story about the Hillside Strangler case in Los Angeles, the suspect was not the actual killer.

[@jeremiahabbott5277]

At approximately 10:00- I completely understand that the National Guard has to eat too. However, shouldn’t they have already been prepared with their own food for that ahead of time? Doesn’t supplying the National Guard with groceries from a grocery store limit the amount of food available for the citizens?

[@stevengallant6363]

Yeah. it's counter productive.

[@heidemonteith]

1:16 that pb is not looking very smooth tbh 🧐

[@heidemonteith]

25:11 short shorts ❤👀👀

[@ralphrodgers353]

America was much better.

[@CherylCohen-d5s]

Mariela Lodge

[@MyThirdPlaceLtd]

30:06

[@SilasNancy-y9m]

Althea Port

[@EmilyChristopher-k1m]

Wiegand Pine

[@MrLamontSanford]

Oh you mean they had catastrophic weather before global warming?

[@Foxonian]

Thanks to global warming in New England we rarely if ever see winters like this anymore.

[@janetoconnor3636]

That is ironic because after this storm and storm of 77 people were blaming this not on the Greenhouse Effect but instead on what they called the little Ice Age. There is no global cooling or warming for that matter this is something that happens naturally.