It was my senior year in high school, and we did not have to return to classes for the rest of that school year, since we were moving on to jobs or college. All other classes had to do makeup well into the summer.

Didn't go into the summer at all. They eliminated early release days and I think April school vacation, but that was it.

Snow up to the second story of our house. Hard to shovel a way out. Car buried . Could not go anywhere, everything closed...paralyzed. The day after, everything still at a standstill except for the cross country skiers who were traversing the few streets that could be plowed. The plow drivers were exhausted, It was almost impossible to shovel, the drifts were too high to toss the snow over. I hope we don't see the likes of that again.

My cheaply made apartment at Kent State had windows so drafty, we woke up to frost on the INSIDE walls. The wind actually blew frost through the cracks.

The Ohio River froze over. 20 inches of snow. -20 F. 1979 was not much better. We moved to Arizona in 1980.

Moved there from CA to go to grad school. Boy, was I excited about my first NE winter... until it didn't stop. One morning my VW Super Bug had a 1/4" shell of ice all over it.

I still remember tv news reports from Boston about people stranded in their cars, some covering up with floor mats.

I was returning with 3 buds from Sugarloaf....left at 11:00 in the AM and made it to the Maine Shopping Mall in So Portland, Me. 6 hours later, before the car decided that was the end of the road. We dug it out 3 days later and jump started it and finally got it to Saco.