![]() ![]() Long Beach residents on one of the many unplowed side streets try to dig out on Feb. ![]() Suffolk County Police Officer Jim McCarthy, on highway patrol along the Long Island Expressway near Hauppauge, gives a stalled motorist a battery boost with jumper cables during the storm on Feb. 6.Ī payloader moves a car blocking its way on Middle Country Road in Lake Grove on Feb. 6. Timothy Duggen helps push out a car stuck on a snowbank on the Long Island Expressway, west of Exit 39, on Feb. 6. Havoc on the roadsĭrivers digging out their cars on Route 110 in Melville after they were buried in snow by the blizzard.Ī single lane of eastbound traffic crawls along the Long Island Expressway near Exit 51 in Commack on Feb. 6.Ī commuter tries hitchhiking to get home from the Mineola LIRR station during the snowstorm on Feb. 6. Motorists abandon stalled cars on the Meadowbrook Parkway on Feb. It's midafternoon on Hempstead Turnpike in Elmont, where a woman tries to walk through the storm on Feb. Two pedestrians brave wind and snow on Hempstead Turnpike in Hempstead on Feb. ![]() The sun is nowhere in sight as a Nassau police officer with a flare tries to warn Meadowbrook Parkway drivers to steer clear of car wrecks caused by the blizzard that walloped Long Island on Feb. It was one of Long Island's worst snowstorms of the century. Armies of railroad workers labored to clear tracks, and the state sent powerful rotary snowblowers from upstate to unclog roads. Snowfall reaching 26 inches collapsed beach homes, halted commerce and took the lives of a few who ventured outside. This month's Great Storms of Long Island section recalls a two-day neutercane - a coastal blizzard with an eye and winds near hurricane force - that walloped Long Island in February 1978. ![]()
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