North Easter check in thread

[Useless in FL]

69. You are right!

This (I'm prepared to eat my words!) will not compare to the blizzard of 1978 when I worked in New Haven, CT and lived much further east along the CT shoreline. At that time there were still tolls on on Connecticut Turnpike (I-95) and you could not STOP at a toll, you sorta had to ease through. If you stopped, that was it, you were stuck for the duration. Then I was fortunate to get behind a semi that paved the way through the next two tolls, and I was able to get off my exit and up the steep hill to my home - with a 5-speed stick transmission (Datsun 710 wagon). Wow, whata ride....took 4 hours in a normally 1 hour drive. Many, many cars were abandoned along 95, that was very un-nerving in itself and I read in the paper that many people were stranded in their cars. That very winter was my motivation to move south and I did. Still I miss New England every single day.