We are republishing it for the anniversary of the storm on Saturday. The Blizzard of '78 was a catastrophic storm that killed about 100 people and injured 4,500 more — and caused more than $500 ...

Big winter storms hit New England almost every year, but no storm is more clearly remembered and talked about than the Blizzard of '78. The blizzard hit the Boston area on the afternoon on February 6, ...