Twenty-five years ago, Mother Nature played a bad joke on southern New England. The present-day rush for bread and milk before a storm is among its legacies.

So are these memories and images from those who lived through the Blizzard of '78, as compiled by the staff of The Providence Journal in 2003 and on the 20th anniversary in 1998.

New for 2003: A place for you to upload your photos of one of Rhode Island's most famous storms.

Table of Contents

From 2003

The storm: One more time

Your memories

M.Charles Bakst: Garrahy, successors on crisis leadership

Storm stats

The full forecast

And the year was '78 ...

Slideshow of photos from Journal readers and staff

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From 1998

Editor's Note

Storm Diary

Just the facts

Elsewhere in the world

Read your stories

Journal photo gallery

From the archives

Looking ahead

Paper wrapup

From 1978

The week the state stood still

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