The Great Blizzard of 1978 was a historic winter storm that struck the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes regions of the United States as well as Southern Ontario in Canada from Wednesday, January 25 through Friday, January 27, 1978. It is often cited as one of the most severe blizzards in US history.Didn’t think twice about it. Well, maybe once or twice when the road cuts were pretty full of snow. Buick Regal, no chains.
I got to work around 8 am and the parking lot was empty. “How weird is that?” I thought. I went into the building and the guard asked “What are you doing here? We are closed.”
A snow day for work? What the heck? I wasn’t a radio listener so I didn’t get the message about work closures. I’d just gotten back to HQ after some years working in western mountains in winter (Sierras, Cascades, White Mountains, Wind Rivers) and found out easterners are pansies in snow.
“The Great Blizzard of 1978 was a historic winter storm that struck the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes regions of the United States as well as Southern Ontario in Canada from Wednesday, January 25 through Friday, January 27, 1978. It is often cited as one of the most severe blizzards in US history.”
I was living in Milwaukee ate the time and lived through it too.