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.
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.
I was in college in 63. It was -10 at Wittenberg and we still had classes. Went home after finals on a train to Akron where the temp was 26 below and 2 feet of snow. The newspaper said to keep the front page and show it to your kids the next time they complain.