the biggest issue was that state plow drivers were on strike. we live in potowomut section of eg/warwick. i was 6 months, my brother 3 and a half. he had a sore throat. my mom looked in his throat and saw it was red and white and just plain sick. she phoned the dr at home. the owner of thorpe's drug store could open for a few hours a day. the dr called thorpes. my dad hopped on a snowmobile with a backpack. almacs also was open for a few hours a day. he got the medicine, some basic food staples, and drove home. snowmobiles were the way to go.

I was 7 and my sister 6, my father was stuck in Providence for a week working. Around day three, we are watching the news in the living room and mom is in the kitchen and there is my father on the news driving down a street in Providence. My mother didn't believe us as we yelled dad was on tv.

My fathers uncle died shoveling his driveway, it has become a family punchline years later as we are always the last people on the street to clear our driveway after a snowstorm. The neighbors don't realize how dangerous shoveling is!

Finally, my mother taking care of two young ones realizing her husband would not be home forgot one thing, the dog. He hid in his doughouse and the snow kept him warm and safe, we had to go dig him out when my dad called and asked about him. Fortunately that was 1978, they would put her in jail for that in 2012.

I worked at Hospital Trust in downtown Providence. I carpooled that day and we got stuck on 95. I was 7 months pregnant and had to climb up the side of the highway to get to a street and walked to a fire station. My husband and dobie Clyde walked for miles from Narragansett Terrace looking for me (no cell phones back then). Luckily I got a ride home. We were without power, etc. for a week. The severity of the storm was not predicted, and the problem was that everyone was at work that day.