It took big Caterpillar loaders to clear a path through the eight foot drifts. Snowplows were a joke. Some people waited 10 days before they could leave their house. 
Posted on 01/07/2014 5:58:17 PM PST by Hojczyk
mockery by nearly every Ohioan over the age of forty began on Facebook:
Well I see all the public schools in my area have already WIMPED OUT and cancelled school for the next two days because of . . . snow and ice and cold temperatures. Heavens. I guess the poor little dumplings can’t take it. Is everyone going to cancel work too because it’s so cold?
I can’t believe they cancelled already when the temps are still ok and not one flake has fallen. Hello Wussy USA!!!
My wife rode the bus from the time she and her sisters were in elementary school. If there were one or two foot snow drifts. . .if they could get the buses out of the barns. . .they went to school. Parents can walk or drive their kids. We are turning our kids into wimps nowadays.
I delivered newspapers when in snowstorms many times. I think the real problem is that parents want their kids to be protected every minute from the time they leave home. They probably have a greater chance of getting shot in school than getting frostbite but that is another issue.
I’m only 20. But even I know things have happened a lot worse than what we have now. It’s sad to see that we’ve come so far just to be so annoyingly weak.
NOAA reported:
blizzard caused the most complete disruption of transportation ever known to Ohio. Maj. Gen. James C. Clem of the Ohio National Guard reported the immobilization of Ohio was comparable to the results of a statewide nuclear attack. Prolonged blizzard conditions created enormous snowdrifts that stopped highway and rail transportation and isolated thousands of person. Air travel was stopped for two to three days by low visibility and deep snowdrifts on runways.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
The 1991 Halloween blizzard. Went into work. Literally had to dig a tunnel through the snow to get to the door.
On February 12, snow started falling from Fort Myers and Tampa in Florida west towards New Orleans. Blizzard conditions were reported north of Tampa along the west coast of Florida due to ocean-effect snow.
The storm crossed the Florida peninsula and intensified as it rapidly moved up the Eastern United States. High Point, North Carolina, recorded 10-12" (25–30 cm) of snow, and temperatures as low as 10 °F (−12 °C) on the 11th, 5 °F (−15 °C) on the 13th, and 3 °F (−16 °C) on the 14th. It was said to be the coldest weather known to the oldest inhabitants. Washington, D.C., recorded its all-time record single snowfall of 20.5 inches (52 cm), though it was later broken.
Cape May, New Jersey, recorded 34 inches (86 cm), which is the highest single storm snowfall total ever in New Jersey, in what is normally the least-snowy part of the state.
The port of New Orleans was completely iced over by February 13, with ice floes reportedly floating out of the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico. On February 14 the city experienced its coldest ever Mardi Gras reading of 7 °F (−14 °C). The Krewe of Rex Parade was delayed while snow was removed from the route.
Also on February 14, the low temperature in Miami was 29 °F (−2 °C), the second-coldest (and the first sub-30) temperature that the city has ever recorded.
It took big Caterpillar loaders to clear a path through the eight foot drifts. Snowplows were a joke. Some people waited 10 days before they could leave their house.
I know 1978 was a big deal, as was my 1961 Hurricane Carla down on the coast, but my point was that extreme (or not so extreme) weather is always a big deal, and this is plenty enough extreme weather to fill the news for a few days, it is sure bigger than Super Bowls and the latest movie, or the latest normal fill local media uses, people love this stuff, they are having minor adventures and are all sharing in the experience, at least this is reality.
The weather industry and TV weather is not sitting on a shelf waiting to be relevant and entertaining every 30 years, or every other generation.
My dad was stationed at Minot AFB in the late ‘60s - early ‘70s.
I remember getting on the school bus in -20 with blowing snow quite often. School was always open, regardless of the weather conditions. I walked home from school several days when it was -15 or -20 and the snow flakes hit my face so hard they stung.
We didn’t think a thing about it. That was just the deal.
The only exception was one Sunday morning when my sister and I were getting ready for Sunday school. CE trucks canvassed the neighborhood announcing that everyone must remain indoors because the wind chill was -77.
so we have this facebook thread going with parents rightfully mocking the local school district decision to close today because it might reach single digit cold. We had one weepy parent whine about income disparity and that the schools should close until all children have coats and gloves because some people can’t afford them. The stupid was so thick that I had to walk away.
Kind of looks like my door this past October out here in South Dakota. Electricity went out on a Friday, we were lucky it came back on Sunday.
What state was it?
Now, THAT was a blizzard! We were snowed in for a couple of days, and then I had to travel toward Dayton, but could only get on the wrong side of the divided highway (US 35). Traveled nearly 15 miles before I ever saw another vehicle. It was an unbelievable storm.
You remember that? It was a big 'un, but I only know it by reputation.
Plus these storms don’t have cute names. They are just winter.
I throw up a little when I read headlines with “Chiberia” today. That’s OK on a newspaper, they have little space and it is reserved for the front page. But on the net it is all over.
As if there’s a contest. These “snowmageddon” type names interfere with the flow of information, but writers feel compelled to use them.
It was as cold or colder in the 70s and they NEVER closed schools or shut down government. NEVER. I guess they covered up the mass deaths... / s
Being bombarded 24/7 by TWC and other “news” networks by dire predictions and hyping/exaggerating the effects of weather events creates a false perception of reality. Often, the scaremongering results in the populace becoming nearly paralyzed with fear.
I remember that storm in 1978 well. Had a VW Rabbit, diesel and the fuel tank froze solid.
You’re correct.
In my cynical view, NBC purchased WC to use for promoting the “climate change” agenda.
Chicago Winters of 1978, 1979 and others
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Chicago+Blizzard+of+1979&FORM=RESTAB
Look back at Chicago's worst three blizzards
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/01/31/a-look-back-at-3-of-chicagos-worst-blizzards/
Chicago Blizzard of 2011
http://blogs.cars.com/kickingtires/2011/02/the-cars-of-the-chicago-blizzard-of-2011.html
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=chicago+blizzard+of+2011&qpvt=chicago+blizzard+of+2011&FORM=IGRE
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=chicago+blizzard+of+2011+lake+shore+drive&qpvt=chicago+blizzard+of+2011+lake+shore+drive&FORM=IGRE
The coldest days in Chicago
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/12/10/the-coldest-days-ever-in-chicago/
Chicago Snow Facts
http://www.snowpusher.com/chicago-snow-facts
Winter of 1978-79 was particularly brutal, almost 90” of snow.... : (
Now THAT one was a real doozy. I remember tv footage of the aftermath with a helicopter going over neighbourhoods where no homes could be found... there were snow drifts where the crest was coming off highway overpasses. My brother was driving to NYC from Ontario and just a bit east of Buffalo, the visibility was so bad he got off the road and crawled into a gas station. He was stuck inside the gas station for the next 5 days.
But then there was the blizzard of '41....
I was in the middle of the blizzard of 78 and still can’t figure out what the big deal was.What I remember the most is the national guard “snotty nose kids” were running around pissing people off 24/7 trying to tell people what to do.
How about the blizzard of ‘73? That would be NINETEEN73. Up to 25 inches of snow in South Carolina, people freezing to death in Carolina. People stuck in service stations and stores along I-95 in Carolina for several days. Helicopters rescuing people from stranded cars on I-95, I-26 and I-20 in Carolina. Two feet of snow in places that don’t see snow for many years in a row and then don’t normally see more than a couple or three inches if it does snow. Snow equipment being sent down South from Northern states to dig us out. People burning the seats out of their cars along I-95 to try to warm up.
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