Posted on 02/19/2025 9:12:49 AM PST by DallasBiff
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I think the next time it snowed in Fla was Christmas 1989. I have a picture of me in my fur coat scraping snow off my new Saab in my sister’s driveway in Jacksonville.
Tom Skilling recently retired as WGN meteorologist, he was a good one.
“- - - 76-77 because 77-78 had the big blizzard.”
Somewhere in that era I recall going to work one morning after a howling blizzard. I popped the hood on our ‘68 Chevy pickup and I could not see the engine, all I could see was snow right up to the underside of the engine hood. The actual temp was minus 40 degrees.
I scraped some of the snow off the engine. The old girl took right off and purred like a kitten and went to work and thought nothing of it.
Today our 2018 F150 will not start when it gets below zero. But our 97 Chevy pickup will.
I remember the sudden flood of NY license plate in SoCal after that, and the political lurch left from all of them escaping the cold.
“I can’t ever remember anyone making such a big deal of cold weather IN WINTER while I was growing up.”
They want us to be afraid of anything and everything these days.
Won’t be long before they have shadow warnings on sunny days. This will alert people that are afraid of their own shadows following them to stay inside, in the dark.
We got 4 feet.of snow in Fayetteville Ark that January.
The University of Ark shut down the campus for 2 days. They only previously shut.it down 2 days in 100 years.
We had the greatest snow ball fight in history. Hundreds of us dormies fighting the frats.
I was in boot camp Great Lakes
I lived in North Dakota for a few years. December thru February, the average temperature was -20 degrees F, not including windchill.
These reports are why the left chose the 1970s as the beginning point of global warming. Before that they were anticipating a new ice age.
And meanwhile the church has abdicated it's callings.
Both the winters of ‘76-’77 and ‘77 to ‘78 were bad. Several blizzards both those years.
It was at that time that the NWS defined a storm to very specific criteria to be classified as a blizzard.
By the end of the ‘77-’78 winter, people were gun shy and if they heard *blizzard* just stayed home.
And that was in Buffalo, no stranger to lots of snow. But the storms those two years were really bad.
I’m a CoMO local. Been here since birth. Attended Mizzou early 1980s.
Back in the day it was a rare event to shut down the campus for winter weather.
The blizzard of ‘78 was the first time I ever saw them shut down, and they had no choice in that matter because nobody went anywhere until the construction equipment came out to clear the streets. Road graders and conventional plow trucks couldn’t go anywhere until a dozer had made the first pass.
Now that they’re “woked” they go full remote if there’s even a slight expectation of bad weather.
I remember that fall and winter very well. 1976 Thanksgiving day was so cold it froze us out of going deer hunting in the Ozarks. 18 degrees with blowing wind and sleet. 1977 so cold with blowing snow and the entire month of January had cloud cover over all of the Continental USA. Came down with flu which developed int my first case of Pneumonia. Had to miss a whole week of work and in the hospital No sick pay. Caused a resurgence of a teen case of “Quinsy” (Peritonsillar abscess) which caused me more problems in 1978.
I should mention that the fall and winter of 1976 and 1977 were used as proof we were entering THE COMING ICE AGE!
I was working in Springdale at that time. I remember it well.
For what it’s worth, the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula recorded 390 inches of snow in 1977.
Lake effect snow from Lake Superior does exist. So does Calumet’s UP Pub.
Brother of Jeff Skilling of Enron lore as well!
I live about 10 minutes north of Columbia. Nice day today, eh? 😂
I live about 10 minutes north of Columbia. Nice day today, eh? 😂
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