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 ...
You could become an Economist. They never get fired for being wrong either.
I remember walking to a store in 78, now it was only a city block. But I remember it kind of being cool! No traffic, no sound really. It was cold, but the wind had died down by then.
Several co-workers spent the night on 128 back then.
Yes, as long as it doesn’t get *too* cold. But when had to bring the kegs in, there was no shortage of ice for the tub....
This is not totally relevant. Actually hardly relevant at all. But you mentioned the beautiful drive through snow-covered fields without your lights on.
There’s a Docotrow novel, I think it was Loon Lake. As I remember it, the hero is driving through the corn fields with his lights off. He views the magnificence of the fields in the moonlight and says to his ‘love’ who is the 19 year old daughter of a Lithuanian undertaker, “look at this. Do you feel it?” She looks at him, puzzled and says “I dunno what’cha talking about.”
Somehow I was stopped in my tracks and couldn’t keep reading for hours after that.
LOL, but I am not sure I could with a straight face, claim that unemployment checks create jobs.
The Blizzard of ‘78 was an inland cyclone with snow. It was incredible. The snow was coming down, if one could call it that, horizontally, with 100 mph winds and the bottom dropping out of the barometric pressure.
It was my boyfriend’s (husband’s) 20th birthday and I was supposed to go visit him. My parents said, “no.” I would never have made it.
The straight face is optional. You can laugh out loud while saying that and Democrats will still believe you.
I remember the wicked winters in Michigan during the late 70’s, the early 90’s, the early 2000’s, and 2011 before I moved out west.
The big joke was that we all wished for some of that “global warming” that was supposedly going around, but yet we never saw, unless it was in the form of white fluffy frozen water.
I remember walking down the middle of the street with my grandfather. A day off school! Yippee!!! I don’t remember the thunder in 1967. I remember the thunder during the 2011 blizzard.
ICE and snow!
Lots of ICE! I was working the midnight shift at the local power plant and about 2:00 things started tripping off, lines freezing, loss of power and coal crushers. We went from 480 MW to 17 MW due to freezing coal feeders. Up-down. Up-down.
To make things worse, the big wigs at the company headquarters in another state were watching the power meters and thought we had tripped off. We had to start the igniters to keep on line till we got a coal feeders operational again.
If we had lost the plant, we would have turned into an ice palace. We fought ice for about eight days of our ten day shift. I was never so glad to see warm weather and my days off in my life!
A few years later, the power plant tripped off in a bad storm. We lost all reserve power so there was NO heat through out the plant. The supervisor had everyone out looking for broken water lines with flashlights. There was ice everywhere as lines were breaking all over the place. In some places, we had huge, dangerous icicles which we had to break down to make it safe to walk in some areas.
The silence was the most amazing thing about the blizzard of 78. There was no noise. Zero noise.
No cars could drive for a week. People were just cross country skiing up and down the roads. And it was totally quiet in the city. And the snow was higher than the street signs. Not unusual for North Dakota maybe but very unusual for the rest of the country.
:)
That’s my old neighborhood!
Wow!
What memories that gave me!
Route 128 in Milton, MA. Rt 138 crosses 128 at the Blue Hills...where I used to live.
I remember it was real quiet. Weird when you live in a city.
Awesome. Thanks for the link!
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