The Blizzard of 1978: “The Storm of the Century”
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SummaryThe Blizzard of 1978 was the result of the untimely collision of multiple weather systems; the new moon; the perfect alignment of the sun, the moon and the earth; and the occurrence of the storm during weekday commuter hours. These components caused this storm to reach “awesome” proportions. The most severe damage of the storm occurred along the coast. The positioning of earth in relation to the sun and the moon, and the phase of the moon itself, are responsible for the tides, these specific conditions caused the tide to be unnaturally high, enabling the storm surge to be immense. The storm surge was so intense that houses were knocked off their foundations, people fled to their attics for safety and a man drowned in his basement while fixing his furnace. The Boston Globe reported in their Tuesday February 6, 1978 morning edition, an edition which for the first time ever, was never distributed due to the ferocity of the storm; that the explanation of the storm is similar to Ted Williams’s explanation of hitting a baseball “everything was in the right place at the right time.”
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