CALL FOR CONTACTS: Do you know these 1966 blizzard babies?

Grand Forks Herald ^ | By Herald Staff

[skeptoid]

Do you recognize either of these women or their children from this Herald photo taken March 8, 1966?

The Grand Forks Herald is attempting to contact them for a story.ey all have quite the story.

[skeptoid]

Deep snow, double shift, and a stuck bulldozer an a tobagan1! If you know them call the number in the article.

(I know the upper mom looks like Zappa, but its just the shadow of her high chee cones)

[Kirkwood]

They probably moved to a place where it doesn’t snow.

[doorgunner69]

I dunno, but that one worked as a model for the Farside cartoonist Gary Larson, maybe?

I'd recognize those glasses anywhere.

[free_life]

I remember that storm, I was 12. The snow was not only deep but it blew against our and others houses. To get outside we climbed out my bedroom window on the second floor and then shoveled out the front door it took a long long time, and it was fun. Us kids dug tunnels everywhere and had great toboggan hills and snow castles till it melted.

Schools were closed and everything was buried under mountains of snow.

What a winter!
I had snowshoes and made good money delivering medicine to people who could get out to get it.

[DennisR]

Do not know either of these ladies, but my nephew was born in Adams, ND, in a small trailer during the same storm. We were living in Sharon, ND at the time. The snow was between 5-6 feet deep as far as the eye could see. Clotheslines were visible only a few inches above the snow. School was cancelled, though! Ha!

[DennisR]

Where were you living?

[ChildOfThe60s]

Fun human interest story

[Daffynition]

Are they looking for the father of the baby?

He owes quite a sizable amount in child support.

[norwaypinesavage]

I remember well the '66 blizzard, though I haven't a clue about the two women and their babies. It was the worst snow storm I've ever experienced. Though I'm now writing this from a warm Texas hillside, I lived not far from Grand Forks then.

The March blizzards always seemed the worst. Snow usually stayed on the ground from October to May. This means that it simply got deeper and deeper all winter. By the time March rolled around, sidewalks were sometimes nearly tunnels, and each shovel full of snow had to be lifted and thrown over the banks. This blizzard lasted several days, and was accompanied by high winds. This meant that the plowed roads and streets drifted in, level with the tops of the banks. Our town had to bring in large snow blowers to blow one lane paths for some of the streets. It took over a week to get movement of people and vehicles traffic back to somewhat normal.

I remember our car got run into, by a bulldozer. A couple of friends and I were out surveying the town. We got stuck at a street corner after stopping to look for traffic around the snow banks. A small 'dozer was attempting to push a path for a sidewalk. He, too got stuck and had to back up for a new attempt. He didn't look behind while he backed up. We watched him slowly approach, while saying to each other: "he'll look around soon". He didn't look back until he heard the CRUNCH. The worst part was that I was young enough (19) to not realize that not everyone had to live like that. I thought it was simply normal.

[rhoda_penmark]

“I’d recognize those glasses anywhere. “

Sadly, in 1966 almost everybody’s glasses looked like that. :-)

[Fresh Wind]

LOLOL! If anything is a call for contacts, it is those glasses!