I was in High School during the winter of 1976. That was the coldest damned winter I can remember. The Delaware River froze over completely for the first time since the 18th century. The surf at Sea Isle City NJ was completely frozen. We had two weeks where the temp never got above 0. That's when Time Magazine proclaimed we were in a new Ice Age...or entering one. Whatever.
Why do I mention that? 1976 is the winter that Joe Bastardi is saying this coming winter will resemble. I need to buy some extra blankets.
Me too ! It was so damned cold they closed the schools down for a couple of weeks cause they couldn’t keep them heated enough !
That was the winter of ‘76-77. I saw snow flurries in Miami.
I remember regularly putting a drop light under the hood overnight, with an Army blanket over that, to be able to start my car to go to school in the mornings. This near Fort Knox.
“Why do I mention that? 1976 is the winter that Joe Bastardi is saying this coming winter will resemble. I need to buy some extra blankets.”
I was 16 at the time. We had sub-zero temps for weeks on end; school was cancelled which was unheard of for southern Wisconsin. We pretty much toughed it out, no matter what!
We had an ice storm that left our whole city without power for a week. I remember my Mom & Dad taking meat out of the freezer and Dad firing up the charcoal grill; all the Dads in the neighborhood were doing that!
Trees snapped like matchsticks form the weight of the ice. You had to CRAWL on hands and knees to get across the road to the neighbors; no one came to ‘save’ you or to even plow or salt the roads. No one COULD.
But the worst thing? I was a teenage girl without a phone. FOR A WHOLE WEEK! Gaaaah!
Can you imagine what’s going to happen when kids (and this current crop of child-like ADULTS) don’t have their smart phones for a period of time like that?
Perish the thought, LOL!