Posted on 01/07/2014 5:58:17 PM PST by Hojczyk
Virginia.
they name storms because nobody remembers random weather events unless they have a name attached.
That's the one. We got 38 inches of snow in 36 hours from that storm. I'm a lifelong Minnesotan and that was the only storm of my lifetime where I had to rake my roof three separate times without the snow ever stopping.
I remember the blizzard of 78. We didn’t get it so bad as Ohio or Chicago. But there were still whole neighborhoods in my town that were cut off by snow for 2 days.. There were snow drifts all the way to the tops of roofs. Then the bitter cold that followed -30 F. The high was -19 F. We got 2 days off from school but people still went to work.
Yes i could feel the grease start to slow up this morning on my 2.6 mile bike to work. It was 6.1 degrees with a 10 to 15 knot headwind. joints got a little stiff as well. The headwind for a good bit of the trip slowed me down a bit. another mile or two and i might have slowed to zero. The breaks start to chatter as well so i kept the speed under 10 knots.
Bump!
I suppose no one in Virginia really does have the right gear for these types of events.
I remember 78 we had to quit shoveling because there was no where to put it. The garage was drifted over. There was still piles of snow in mid June that year.
Seems like every time the snow falls they want to name it. It has a name, it’s called WINTER.
I remember the blizzard of 67 too. I remember because of the thunder and lightning. I was a little kid and it scared me.
I knew someone who had to abandon his car on 128. They were able to walk to a house where they and 27 other people camped out in the living room. ( 2bed, 1.5 bath house). They stayed there 2 days, the food ran out and they walked 13 miles to get home. They never got their car back in one piece.
I was just reminiscing with Mrs. Liberty about the storm of 78. She didn’t recall it, because she was living in SoCal at the time. I was holed up in a basement of my Fraternity house in Kalamazoo, MI with 20 or so brothers. I was lucky enough to have laid in fresh provisions. It was the most awesome three-five days...
It was Rush season that time of the Semester, and the storm rolled in as an unexceptional party was breaking up one Wednesday night. The Sorority sisters were leaving and giant flakes were coming down. While the National Weather Service was predicting a foot of snow (that’s a lot for there), a private outfit said 33 inches. We had 36 in the end. The University was closed Thursday and Friday, so our party continued on until Sunday night.
We blew the whole Social budget on kegs from the still-open liquor store (Carted on toboggans) and had to pass the hat again afterwards. I had two part-time jobs at radio stations, and I skied to get there. There were places on the freeway where the snow drifted 25 feet high.
Since then, I grew some sense and moved to AZ. Ain’t nobody got time fo dat. :^)
I should have gone into weather forecasting, you never get fired for being wrong.
Yep. We had snow piles until May where I was.
We also had a bad storm in 1977.
I don’t remember if it was 77 or 78 when the ENTIRE continental USA had cloud cover for the entire month.
Bad year in 1960. Lots of snow the entire month. Intense cold in 1962. Broke up the roads from New Mexico to Arkansas.
Then there was the March 14, 1968 storm.
Thinking back, 1957 was really bad.
That is one good thing about snow. It’s cold and you don’t have to worry about the beer getting warm.
1978, isn’t that when they had real cars made of real heavy duty metal?
Nowadays the cars are made of lightweight plastic.
Most of the people posting the comments on PJ Media are full of crap.
You can’t ‘walk’ to the store in 10-foot drifts. Snow trapped people in their homes here in Indianapolis in 78. You need serious cold-weather clothing to be outside in that type of weather for any length of time. If you get stuck in your car, you are seriously screwed.
I don’t know how much snow Ohio got this time but we got over 12” of snow with 4’ drifts on Sunday and the temperature was -11F with -40F windchills the next day. There is no way children can be out in that weather.
I remember that two days very well. I was nine months pregnant with my fourth child and spent those days with fairly regular contractions. The daughter who would become a nurse was three and a half at the time, not much good yet. Fortunately daughter number four waited a few weeks until the roads were clear.
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