SHAYNA: HERE IS A QUESTION FOR
YOU, DID THE BLIZZARD OF 1978
TURN NEW ENGLANDERS INTO
BLIZZARD WIMPS?
ANTHONY: THAT IS WHAT OLD-TIMERS
SAY ABOUT PEOPLE WHO GET SCARED
AND PACK THE GROCERY STORES.
REPORTER: NEW ENGLANDERS HAVE AN
IMPENDIN
G ANXIETY AROUND
SNOW.
THIS IS AN COMEDIAN'S EXAMPLE.
WINDCHILL FACTOR, SNOWGENESIS,
NO ONE KNEW THESE TERMS BACK IN
1978 WHEN NO ONE KNEW THE TERM
BLIZZARD.
THEY CALLED IT A
SNOWSTORM.
>> THEY COME ON, IT IS 19
DEGREES OUT TODAY, HOWEVER, WHEN
THE WIND BLOWS IT FEELS LIKE IT
IS 34 DEGREES BELOW ZERO.
HONESTL, I DON'T KNOW --WHAT TO
KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE.
LET THE PERSON COME ON
TELEVISION AND SAY IT IS COLD, I
THAT IS ALL I CARE ABOUT.
REPORTER: HE ACTUALLY PRAISES
TODAY'S WEATHER FORECASTERS FOR
PREPARING US WELL.
HAVING LIVED THROUGH THE
BLIZZARD OF 78, HE SALUTES THE
HE IS OLD SCHOOL.
YOU OWN IT.
>> THE BLIZZARD OF 2015, I SAW A
WOMAN FULL INTO MY PARKING BAYS.
-- SPACE.
SHOVEL THAT OUT.
THAT IS MY SPACE.
I DON'T CARE IF WE ARE MARRIED.
YOU NEED TO GET YOUR OWN SPACE.
WE WILL DISCUSS THIS AT DINNER.
REPORTER: FOR THE FOLKS AT TRUE
VALUE IN BELMONT, THE LESSON
RUN OUT OF SHOVELS.
PREPARING TO FAIL.
SUPPLIES.
THE SHOVEL TO DISAPPEAR.
THEY SELL AND THEY TELL AND THEY
SELL.
THE LANDSCAPERS AND PEOPLE DOING
IT PROFESSIONALLY, THEY BURN
RIGHT THROUGH THESE THINGS.
REPORTER: HE SAYS OF THE RECENT
HIS LONGTIME CUSTOMERS.
LOTS OF WHO HAD HEIGHTS FREEZE
AND HERE'S QUICK -- PIPES FREEZE
AND HEATERS QUIT.
>> WHEN YOU DO NOT HAVE ANYTHING
AS BASIC AS RUNNING WATER AND
YOUR LIVING ROOM CANNOT GET OUT
ATTENTION.
REPORTER: 40 YEARS AFTER THE
BLIZZARD OF 1978, SUPERMARKETS
KNOW THEY WILL GET CLOBBERED
BEFORE A STORM.
EVEN THOUGH THE PUBLIC OFTEN
PANIC, RUSHERS STAY CALM.
>> A LOT OF THESE VENDORS, WE
ARE USED TO SNOWSTORMS, THEY
WILL COME IN AND TAKE CARE OF
YOU AND COME BACK IN THE
AFTERNOON JUST TO REPLENISH THE
SHELF.
REPORTER: IT USED TO BE THE
THREE THINGS UNITING BOSTONIANS
WERE POLITICS, SPORTS AND
REVENGE BUT NOW WEATHER IS RIGHT
UP THERE SAYS A BOSTON GLOBE
COLUMNIST.
AFTER A STORM THAT PRODUCED ONLY
FOUR INCHES OF SNOW, HE THINKS
IT IS TIME TO DOLL DOWN THE
AROUND-THE-CLOCK HYPE.
NEED 24-HOUR COVERAGE.
WHEN IT WAS SNOWING, I WENT OUT
WITH MY SNOWBLOWER AND GOT RID
OF THE SNOW.
REPORTER: IN A RECENT "GLOBE"
COLUMN, HE READ ABOUT HOW
SENIORS GET FRIGHTENED BY DAYS
OF NONSTOP STORM WARNINGS.
REPORTER: --
>> I GO TO STAPLES AND A TV
LONG RULERS.
THINK HE WILL CHANGE.
REPORTER: WHAT IS THE ANSWER?
CHEEK.
THE WEBSITE UNIVERSALHUB POKES
FUN AT OUR METEOROLOGIST HARVEY
COMING STORM.
>> PEOPLE SEND ME PICTURES OF
THEIR FRENCH TOAST.
I HAD PEOPLE SENDING IN A LOT OF
WAYS TO MAKE FRENCH TOAST.
LIFE.
SHAYNA: I LOVE THAT UNIVERSALHUB
ADJUSTS THEIR FRENCH TOAST LEVEL
BASED ON HARVEY'S EXCITEMENT.
ANTHONY: IT IS ELEVATED IT
HARVEY HAS A BIG GRIN AND IF HE
MENTIONS THE BLIZZARD OF 1978,
WARNING.
AND WE WANT TO SAY THAT
LEONARD.