Boston MA
I'll never forget the Blizzard of '78.
I could share so many, like how our neighbor drove a county snow plow. He slid off the road late at night working and had to sleep on a strangers couch or he would have perished. How me and dad spent nearly the entire next day digging our 1/4 mile long driveway out by hand in drifts 4-5 feet deep.
Still to this day the only time the entire state of Indiana was issued a blizzard warning.
See. Just more proof of climate, uh, doing whatever it wants to do....
Minus 24, then the next day at minus 25 in Cincinnati The Ohio River froze over and I walked from the downtown landing over to Kentucky and back with my youngest brother. If I remember correctly Cincinnati was the coldest spot in the lower 48.
I was in college in the Northeast at the time. I lived off campus with my brother in a 2nd floor apartment. The day after, we were able to open our window and sled down to the street on flattened pizza boxes. The snow had drifted up that high and provided quite a sledding slope.
I was in high school. Got up that morning and my dad was sitting at the kitchen table and not at work. I asked what he was doing and he said go look out the door. I looked out the door for a bit until I realized I could not see anything but white. There ended up being drifts higher than 2d floors. Ours completely covered the cars and took a long time to dig out. Sledful at a time and dump in the back yard.
i was 12 and remember about 2 weeks off school.
power was out for 7-10 days.
heat was no worries as we had plenty of wood (every fall was spent chopping/stacking wood).
always loved getting buried in snow (it can be fun... if you’re prepared)
Memories indeed. Actual chains on tires. Putting railroad ties in the back of the Pinto to give it more weight . . . . Shoveling snow that was waist deep.
Last year I thi k it was? California had massive snowfall, burying towns. There are some videos of it online. And a few years ago snowdrifts in North Dakota were higher that powerlines- photos online show it. Also Buffalo area really gets pounded badly every few years or so- they don’t measure in feet, but yards lol- that winter in California though was really something to behold as the large snow throwers tried to clear roads and get people out of isolation due to the storm.
Saw a fun y meme yesterday
Woman says “hav8ng a terrible storm today, husband keeps looking through the window. If the storms keeps up I guess I’m gonna have to let him in”
I remember it well. I was in high school at the time. Loved the time off. I had a 1973 Nova at the time, and it was the only car on the block to start after the cold temps settled in. Went around the neighborhood giving folks a jump to the get their cars started.
You aint from Buffalo, man.
We had moved out of the snow belt in ‘75. Then watching the ‘78 blizzard on the news was very much a “glad we got away from that crap” time.
Remembering a call from my boss then...
Boss: “Can you make it in to work?”
Me: (looking out apartment window at my battered old Pinto in the parking lot, buried up to the roof, and all the rest of the lot just as deep)”... um... no.”
I live in central Illinois. We get a big blow about every 10 years or so. The city can dig out in a couple days, but it can be a week for the rural people because of the drifting. It wasn't all that long ago(10 years?) that people had to be rescued from an interstate by the national guard during a south central Indiana blizzard.
I was barely seven years old at the time. I remember the huge snow drifts right up to the edge of the neighbors roof. We had a fuel oil furnace and nearly ran out of fuel for it over the next few days. My dad still talks about that.
My oldest daughters first birthday was Jan 26 of 77. We were in NE Ohio (Youngstown) and the snow started coming.
Everybody showed up through all that crap (We’re a hearty people), stayed for the party and drove back home through the blizzard.
The morning of the 27th, you could literally not see a car in the parking lot (they were buried in snow).
Yes, I remember it well. It’s why I retired in Florida.
I drove from west suburban Chicago out of the blizzard to a meeting in Jackson, Michigan and back again into the ongoing blizzard. I made it within 500 yards of my apartment before burying the car in a snowdrift. Those were the days...
Had snow drifts as tall as the house....seems more and more like it was a weather experiment gone bad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Modification_Convention
https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/weather/ADA283033.pdf
https://www.weather.gov/iln/19780126
I remember it well, while living in Hillsborough NJ, working in Midtown Manhattan.