My childhood home was a drafty, isolated cottage facing Barnegat Bay on the west, always cold in winter. The northwest wind whipped the water over the bulkhead, and salt spray speckled the windows.
That was quite a blizzard a week and a half ago. Some 15 inches of snow fell on Long Beach Island and snowdrifts piled halfway up my old, one-story house on the bay in Harvey Cedars.
But it was nothing like the Blizzard of 1947 when the central New Jersey area got up to 25 inches. According to the U.S.
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