Description: [Date inferred from date range of other reels in can]
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/26/1978, 05/27/1978, 05/28/1978, 05/29/1978
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/17/1978
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/08/1978
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/08/1978
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/17/1978
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/27/1978
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/11/1978
Description: No audio through first half of video. Aftermath of blizzard of '78. Sunny day on impassable highway with abandoned, buried cars. Snow removal by bulldozer. Tire skidding. Driver cleans off covered car. Interview with John Tarbox, a driver from Rockland, MA who was stranded. He gets in his still buried car and starts it up. Interview with Donald Jones, a young army man from California, who has never seen snow. State police cruiser, helicopter.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/09/1978
Description: Interview with James Blanchard in Scituate about effect of blizzard on Peggotty Beach waterfront summer homes. Most homeowners have flood insurance. Storm damaged cottages. Roof on ground. Lumber torn off houses. Pile of rubble. Refrigerator toppled, covered with sand. Stone hearth intact in otherwise devastated room exposed to elements. Several ruined houses, tipped on side, filled with beach debris. Breaking waves. Telephone poles and wires askew. Crab washed ashore. Interview with Scituate building commissioner William Stone and health agent Bernie Nadeau on extent of destruction: estimates roughly $50 million.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/09/1978
Description: Red Cross Disaster Service Center in Revere High School after major blizzard caused flooding, displacing oceanfront residents. Empty gymnasium that served as temporary shelter. Room strewn with donated clothing and shoes. Interview with Bob describing rescue from his apartment and helping his neighbor from her inundated home.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/13/1978