Bad traffic in 1978.
The wimpification of the US is complete. First, blame the lawyers and the lawsuit lottery players.
But I drove to work that day in ‘78, made it a little late, but life went on.
A country of wimps..???? Yes
Bad traffic in 1978.
Needless to say the winter of 78-79 was cold but basically unexceptional.
I was a freshman at IU during the blizzard of 78. This storm was pretty good, but NOTHING compared to 78. The Indiana National Guard had to use their M60 tanks to pull stranded vehicles out of the drifts. They were the only things that could get though. If the liquor stores hadn’t stayed open I don’t how we could have survived.
Yet more evidence — as if any were needed — why the voting age needs to be restored to 21.
The blizzard of ‘78. That was a doozy by cracky.
Different animals. I was in Connecticut during the ‘78 snow. It was a serious problem, but it didn’t get as cold. Yes, the several feet of snow (ours came halfway up our front door, which was three feet off of the ground) means you really aren’t going anywhere. But several days of -20 makes its own problems. This morning, car #1 (’98 Buick Park Ave) wouldn’t get warm or defrost, so I went for car #2 (’94 Chevy Caprice Wagon), which was blowing warm, not hot. I stopped to get gas (leaving the engine running, common here during winter) and as I was wiping the windows (which also frosted on the inside), steam poured out from under the hood (broken hose or heater core). I was barely able to get the car to my mechanic. I managed to get car #1 going, but this is more than a wimpy thing to deal with. When it gets this cold, THINGS BREAK.
“Our Country won’t go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won’t be any AMERICA because some foreign soldier will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race!” Chesty Puller
Survivor of the Blizzard of ‘78 here. I had no problems, but my girlfriend’s brother had to abandon his car on Route 128, and by the time he found it again, it had been flattened by a snowplow.
I am in Minnesota. I currently sit in my work truck outside an outlet mall waiting for a manager to come back and let me in so I can do some upgrades to their pos system.
See.. they closed early because it was “cold”. air temp at the moment is +4. Its not just one store. Everyone but one store closed at 4.
Ill say it. Many of us have turned in to a bunch of pussys. Yesterday was a complete waste to. Everyone canceled. I billed each and everyone one of them. My truck was warmed up and ready to go when the calls came in. I drove to two sites that didn’t bother to tell me not to go.
My contract says go unless they tell you otherwise. So I went.
Ok, so a bunch of people who remember ‘78 (as I do) are telling me it’s not dangerous outside because, well, they remember ‘78.
Blizzard of ‘78? Try the Blizzard of ‘88 - 1888.
Akron, Ohio Jan 78:
I remember looking out the front window of our house (which faced east) and seeing the drapes of the neighbor’s picture window flapping wildly. The wind load had imploded the glass.
With great effort we were able to nail a 4x8 plywood over the opening.
Uh, I think the concern this time was with the cold (wind chills of -50 degrees), not the amount of snow.
I can’t say that I get the point of the article.
They covered weather as a big deal back in the 1970s as well.
Dan Rather became famous in 1961 because he was covering my weather, as my local weatherman.
Every generation has a storm to remember.
Haha I was 11 during 78 in the boondocks of indiana and we enjoyed making tunnels in the snow that my 6’1” dad could stand up straight in. I drove an hour to work both ways yesterday and today (no lie) in Ohio and was disappointed by the callins made at work - expected sterner stuff.
Ice happens, back when weatherman Thomas Jefferson was recording various weather measurements the winter of 1779-1780 was really brutal.