This week we look at photos from the Valentine’s Day Blizzard of 1940. The expected gallery would be photos from the Blizzard of 1978, a storm and photos that many remember well. You can see a gallery here. It was fascinating digging deeper through our archives to find another storm that brought life to a halt. The area was surprised by this storm in 1940 that dropped 14 inches of heavy snow in a very short time. This does not sound like a lot of snow, but the 60 mile per hour winds whipped the wet snow into huge drifts that stopped all transportation. Cars and people were stranded all night and 31 people in New England lost their lives. - Leanne Burden Seidel and Lisa Tuite
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thank you for a very interesting piece. love the remarks in the captions re. airbrush artists. great work. thanks again.
I believe I remember this as a kid living in Dorchester. Fun to see all those old cars in picture!
thanks for the memories.
Agricola, Cape Cod
My parents often spoke of being caught in this storm. My father had gone to see a customer for his business, and my mother went with him as it was Valentine's Day, and there were no children yet. They got bogged down on hills on Rte. 9 East in Framingham on their way home to Brookline. People stopped to help each other by digging out cars in front and getting them moving again. My parents had only a two pound box of chocolates, my dad's gift to my mom, to eat all day. They finally made it to St. Paul Street in Brookline and walked in hip high snow up Sewall Ave. to get home.
Love this story, jzed!
I found most interesting the picture and caption about the men who went to work shoveling.