[Chi-townChief]

Weird Al Gore wasn't around to help us out back then.

[timsbella]

40th anniversary, or as Algore would call it "the beginning" /sarc

[dirtboy]

Had they known then what they know now, they might have called for “a big chance of snow” or “a chance of big snow.”

They didn't realize that two-year-old Jim Cantore's parents had just moved to Wheaton a few weeks before.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I wasn't in Chicago then, but in St. Louis, and I wonder if we had a storm at the same time. I remember one of the local weathermen telling a story about how he had made a forecast of "partly cloudy". Within hours, St. Louis was hit by such a bad snowstorm that the weatherman wasn't able to leave the TV station to go home, and had to put up with viewers calling in to tell him about how much "partly cloudy" they were shoveling off their driveways.

[Charles Henrickson]

In all, 19.8 inches fell in a 24-hour period. Before it was over, 23 inches were on the ground, crippling the city and giving its residents memories for a lifetime.

Man, I remember the Blizzard of '67! I was 13 years old at the time, and we lived on the north side. I remember shoveling out a parking spot on our street and putting a chair there to save the spot. I remember pushing cars that got stuck in the snow. I remember jumping off the the roof of our garage into the huge snowdrifts below. And I remember how hard it was for days--maybe a couple of weeks--afterward to get to and from high school. The city buses took forever, and sometimes we would put the thumb out and hitch rides.

[coloradan]

The 1967 blizzard still holds the record for greatest snowfall in a 24-hour period and greatest snowfall from a single storm.

... in Chicago, anyway.

[MotleyGirl70]

From GIS:

[metmom]

Looks like a normal winter in NYS to me. We have lots of pictures of the various houses I've lived in that look like that.

[Condor51]

I remember the '67 blizzard like it was yesterday.

I was just a few months out of HS (June 66), no car and had to take the bus to work (west of Midway Airport). I finally wound up 'walking' (crawling and falling) the last five blocks through 30" snow drifts on the parkway between Western Ave and Western Blvd from Archer Ave (37th St) to home at 42nd St. With nothing on but Thom McCann shoes, shark skin pants and obligatory 'Guinea Jacket' (Black, Cabretta Leather)

I think I stood by the radiator (steam heat for you youngsters) for an hour when I finally got home. I was cold and frozen as 'heck'.

(However, my Thom McCann pointy toe shoes with Cuban heels held up fine through all of that. All us cool guy 'Greasers' wore Thom McCann's)