With most people at my school starting home, I joined the rest and headed home on the subway.\u00a0 It was slow and crowded in the city, but the tracks were usable and the trains were running at that point.\u00a0 I had an uneventful trip to my stop and walked down the hill to our apartment house.\u00a0 My husband had a somewhat more exciting commute home, not leaving Concord until later than he should have.\u00a0 His route home was crowded with cars and got slower and slower, but he knew from experience that he didn\u2019t dare stop if he wanted to get home at all.\u00a0 He saw cars slewed off the highway, on the side of the road, but was able to keep finding a path where he could keep moving.\u00a0 Eventually, he made it home.\u00a0 We were among the lucky ones.\u00a0 Others got stuck at work, or in their The worst of the storm was that it stalled over eastern Massachusetts and kept dropping snow for somewhere around 33 hours, which in combination with the winds made for treacherous conditions everywhere.\u00a0 By Tuesday night it finally stopped snowing and on Wednesday we could finally try to get out of the house.\u00a0 A day later my husband ventured to walk from our house to the center of town to see if he could add some food to our dwindling supply.\u00a0 There wasn\u2019t much available at the little grocery or the deli \u2013 of course they had gotten no deliveries since early on Monday.\u00a0 The day after that we trekked up the hill to the larger grocery and were able to get some basics.\u00a0 People were out on cross-country skis in the middle of the usually busy main road we were on.\u00a0\u00a0 There were scenes on television from the local channels showing people skiing down the middle of the main streets in Boston.\u00a0 It was an unexpected time out for everyone, a snow day (and then a snow week) for all of us, not just the schoolchildren who usually got time off with snow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With our winter finally finished here in New England, I’ve had enough storms for now and we’re enjoying Spring (post nor\u2019easter season and before hurricane season).\u00a0 However, for the topic of storms I decided to write about my own experiences …<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Greenberg-car-1978-02-08-before-digging-out-300x225.jpg\")
<\/a>cars on the highway.\u00a0 There were deaths when the snow\u00a0 buried the cars or their tailpipes.\u00a0 People walked off the road, or were rescued by cross-country skiers, etc.\u00a0\u00a0 People who lived close to the highway took in those who had no place to go.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Greenberg-car-1978-02-08-partway-dug-out-300x223.jpg\")
<\/a> The front door was completely blocked by a snow drift, so we struggled through the snow from the back door with our shovels to begin trying to dig out.\u00a0 There was a travel ban in the state, with only essential personnel allowed on the roads (hospital personnel mostly).\u00a0 Our governor was shown on TV in a sweater, asking everyone to stay home until further notice while the road crews and emergency vehicles tried to start clearing..<\/p>\n