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Posted on 01/20/2019 2:31:09 PM PST by simpson96
Jan. 19, 1977. The day when temperatures plunged into the 30s on the Suncoast and snowflakes dusted Tampa Bay. The storm didn’t last that long, but it was enough to cement the day into our area’s history.
Some native Floridians delighted in seeing their first snowfall. Families built snowmen together. College students ran around nude and skipped class.
But not everyone was pleased to wake up to the falling flurries. Farmers’ crops were destroyed. Icy gusts of wind knocked over power lines and ripped trees out of the ground. The governor at the time, Reubin Askew, called a state of emergency.
Let’s take a trip back in time to that frigid day.
(Excerpt) Read more at tampabay.com ...
My first reaction when reading the newspaper headline:
Do they really call themselves Tampons?
then I saw the little line.
Yeah, I might have suggested Tampanians, or something. But they didn’t ask me.
I was driving to FSU in a 1955 Dodge Royal four door, with four bald tires. I tapped the brakes with plenty of room to the light and turned the car around several times before ending up in the middle of the intersection. There were fender-benders all over town. At the college of engineering the students had built a leaf infested, dirty snowman. Yep, remember it like yesterday. (I miss the car.)
“College students ran around nude.”
Around here, we call that “the weekend”.
I was in North Lauderdale at the time. I remember it well. People sure were shocked...
Hi.
Currently, AM 970 is doing a poll on what “Tampans” should call themselves.
I suggested “Yborians” and they didn’t like that.
5.56mm
Well, that proves global warming, doesn’t it? No snow today.
I think we might get something like this again in Florida in the next few weeks!
weather was brutal in 1970’s
Growing up in upstate NY actually had FROST IN JULY in some parts of the state in early 1970’s
Remember nothing but blizzards for winter 1977
Buffalo get buried under more that 30 feet of snow that year
I was living in Winter Park at that time. It was interesting that Tampa, which is about 90 miles south got more snow. We had a few flurries, no biggie. But the kids were thrilled and a joy to watch.
They should have asked you. gracious!
That was back before we had climate change and just had weather.
I remember convincing North Dakotan friends that we all had snow mobiles in our garages! LOL!
My wife, baby daughter (six months old), and I just missed the snow that year. A few days before it hit we left MacDill AFB in southern Tampa on a “ditty” move to northern California with a Ford Fairlane and a Uhaul trailer with everything we owned. When it hit we were in Beaumont, TX and starting into west Texas. Glad we missed it and glad I didn’t have to go through it with a tank of a car and pulling a trailer.
rwood
Models over the next couple of weeks are calling for temperatures into the 40’s across the entire Florida Peninsula with snow down to Savannah. It’ll be interesting to see what happens!
Do you remember the “rolling black outs” Christmas day 1989 and temps in the teens? People had to cook their Christmas dinners on the grills!
I get snow up here a couple a feet overnight or at a time. I laugh when places get so little snow. I was in DC and they shut the town down with only a few inches of snow.
I was manager at a small radio station in Perry, Florida (north of Tampa) at the time, and when we announced that is was snowing, evidently everybody in town called somebody, and the phone company notified us to cease, and we had “locked down” the entire phone system.
It was funny.
I currently live in Tampa...
I can only imagine what would happen if it snowed...
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