My mom broke her leg the night BEFORE the blizzard of was it 1969? They were having a surprise party for my aunt, and she and her other sister had gone to pick up the cake. She slipped carrying the cake, and, rather than drop the cake, let her leg twist under her when she fell. She broke her ankle in 3 places, drove herself to the ER (her sister didn't have a license), got it cast, and still made the party. She was in a cast from her toes to her groin. Everyone who saw her assumed she had slipped and fallen in the snow. She was so embarrassed to admit that she fell the night before, that she just went with the whole blizzard story after a while.