Remembering the Blizzard of ‘78
Feb 5th, 2008 by Ken Yuszkus
I got up and looked out and could not believe the amount of snow.
It was three feet deep with drifts covering the cars in the large parking lot of my apartment complex. There was no way I was going to get out of the parking lot. I phoned in to the newspaper to tell the chief photographer that I was snowed in and had no idea when I would be able to get to work.
A short time later I was told reporter Sally Gilman, who drove a Jeep, would come by to pick me up so I could start taking photos in New Hampshire. It was still snowing as I swam through the three feet of snow to get to the street where I was picked up and driven around. We drove mostly in Salem, N.H.
We searched and photographed whoever we could find. Not many people were out because a state of emergency was in effect and people were told not to go out and definitely not to drive. Eventually, after a couple of days, I did get my car out of the parking lot.
One of the stranger sights we witnessed was snowmobilers driving down the streets of Salem. We saw them go down Route 28 and found some at the state liquor store, which was open. Just about everything was closed everywhere, so this was a surprise, seeing the liquor store open and selling liquor to customers during a blizzard. Ken Yuszkus/chief photographer Eagle-Tribune/New Hampshire.
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