The massive storm left 20 people dead in Michigan, and saw about 100,000 cars abandoned on snow-covered highways across the state.
Both mega-nor'easters belong in the same discussion as two of the most impactful winter storms New England has ever seen.
The Blizzard of '78 is legendary in eastern Massachusetts. Could this winter storm have beaten it? It depends how you measure it.
While the Blizzard of '78 is the most talked about, it's not the most recent blizzard in Rhode Island. Here's when the last one was, what the term means.
Yes, that was quicker than 1978, when much of the state was trapped for a week, and even two weeks in some places. But the ...
The blizzard of 1978 buried New England under several feet of snow and remains seared into the minds of many to this day.
While the historic storm retains its claim to supremacy in most measurements, one impressive record did fall.
The city of Providence has beat the record amount of snowfall, surpassing The Great Blizzard of 1978. As of Monday afternoon, the blizzard had dumped a record number of 32.8 inches of snow, making it ...
Stay off the roads. That was Gov. Dan McKee’s message to all Rhode Islanders as a nor’easter with “peak blizzard conditions” ...
A historic blizzard shattered the all-time snowfall record in Providence, R.I., on Monday, bringing hurricane-force wind ...
Multiple towns in Massachusetts and Rhode Island notched more than three feet of snow during Monday’s blizzard, capped by a ...