[johnb838]

I've been in Texas for 25 years, but I was going to school at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1978. It took me 24 hours to get from Chicago to Carbondale by train at the end of Christmas break. I took a cab from the train station to the dorm and it started to snow in Carbondale on the ride. Didn't stop for the next three days. I remember the Great Blizzard of 1978 very, very well.

It was a helluva lot of fun once I was in C'dale, but that train trip and the night in the train station in Homewood with the temperature -25 was from hell.

[tcrlaf]

<< I remember the Great Blizzard of 1978 very, very well. >>

LOL!! I was 14 years old (Civil Air Patrol), pulling people out of stranded Buses on I-69 using a snowmobile with 3 tobagons tied in series. Next day I was doing Drug deliveries when we hit a Triumph Tr-7 that was WHITE, and buried in a snowdrift...

Big Chevy truck with high-flotation tires sailed about 30 feet through the air and landed upright!!

[Miss Marple]

That was a real blizzard. Ten years after it, every time there was a hint of a big snow, the Indianapolis stations would go into panic mode.

We have had mild winters lately, but I think this one will be a doozy. Odds tell me I am right, plus the weather we have had this summer.

I am making sure we have firewood, batteries, and canned goods.