Unless you had to drive your frozen VW and instead had to wait in -20 weather with wind chill (which hadn't been invented yet) of -50.. while waiting for the CTA bus which was delayed because the streets weren't swept (in '79)..in ('69 it was OK...)...
79 in Iowa was nothing like 89 in Iowa. My room mate drove 45 miles down a 2 lane highway(yes, 2 lane highway) from Hampton, Iowa to Waterloo, Iowa. We wanted to get home in time to go to church that night.
The snow was falling so thick that we could not see clearly past the front of the car. We stayed on the road by using the flashers of everyone who went into the ditches on either side like a airliner on a runway.